TERRIBLE HFAT WAVE IN AMERICA
DREADFUL TOLL IN CHICAGO. [ (Ecutcr'a Telegram.) ■ (Rec. August 1, 9.10' p.m.) ! . New York, August 1. . The heat wave, lias broken. The fa-* * .talities .were appalling. There weTs ■twenty-eight deaths in Detroit on Sunday'and three hundred in one week in. Chicago. . SIX TOWNS WIPED OUT GREAT BUSH FIRES IN CANADA. ; (Houter'a Tclwam.) (Rec. August 1, 9.10 p.m.) ; Vancouver, August 1. Six towns—Cochrane. Matheson, Kelso, Monteith, Nushka, and Iroquois, in Northern Ontario—have been praotically wiped out by bush fires. Two hundred people were incinerated, and one hun* dred seriously injured. One family, father and mother, and ton children, perished. Millions of dollars worth o£ ; timber was destroyed. " ;
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2839, 2 August 1916, Page 5
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110TERRIBLE HFAT WAVE IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2839, 2 August 1916, Page 5
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