CANADIAN BUSH FIRES

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CANADIAN BUSH FIRES

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tBT ELECTRIC fELEaitAPH-COFTIl: TV r | Itbe PKESa association^ (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 12. Tlio town of Cochrane, in tilio Porcupine (Alaska) mining district, has been destroyed by hush firos .spreading. Settlers a.vo fleeing from their homes and rain only wilJ save Por(•■upino mining c-auip. Oseada, a small town in A!ichignn, has been wiped out. Hero tlio lire started in the slab-yards, and the Ihi'ines spread to Ihe ad.iojiiing settlement, whore tho inhabitants escaped in a steamer. A relief (rain was wrecked. It is not known if there wero any fatalities. Forest Fires are onilnugering other towns.

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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1911, Page 3

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