GREAT DAMAGE
TO AMERICAN FORESTS
RAVAGED BY FIRES
VANCOUVER, 9th October, Damage estimated at more: than £1,000,000 has already been done by a forest fire in Washington and Oregon States, on the Pacific Coast. A tract of country, hundreds of miles square, is being ravaged. Though hundreds of lives have been in danger, only one person has been killed.
Two hundred inhabitants of tho village'of Cochran, iv Oregon, wero nearly trapped in their homes by the advancing flames, and just managed to escape before all their possessions were destroyed. • •
In Washington fifteen farmhouses have been obliterated, while one area qf 35,000 acres has been swept clean of overy ve»tige of life.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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111GREAT DAMAGE Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 13
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