DISASTROUS BUSH FIRE:
SEVENTY PERSONS KILLED. DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO £500,000. United Press Association. Copyright VANCOUVER, August 3. A bush tiro destroyed tho township of Jerno, in British Columbia, rendering 500 people homeless Seventy people wore killed tuul Ilk) 'wore injured. ~.. The damage amounts to hall a million sterling. Other towns are threatened by tho fire. THE FIRE RACING. 10,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS. SEVEN TOWNS DESTROYED. United Press Association. Copyright {Received August 4, 9.43 p.m.) VANCOUVER, August 4. The groat bush fire at Kootenay Valley, (British Columbia, is still raging. It is reported that 800 lives havo been lost and that 10,000 are homeless. Tho damage is said to amount to £4,000,000. Seven towns havo been destroyed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2261, 5 August 1908, Page 3
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