DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
New York, August 23. The fires at Idaho, Eastern Washington, and Montana are still uuquenched, and the damage exceeds ,£300,000. Two hundred people have been injured, and many are missing. The flames are travelling at the rate of a mile an hour. The wind is blowing a gale. So far 405 persons are missing, mostly fire-fighters and volunteers carrying supplies to forest camps. The Northern Pacific train, carrying 42 patients and 19 Sisters of Charity, who were fleeing from the town of Wallace, was caught in the burning forest, and it is believed all perished. It is believed the incendiaries are men who hope the Government will engage them at big wages to fight the flames.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 883, 25 August 1910, Page 3
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118DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 883, 25 August 1910, Page 3
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