SWEPT BY BUSHFIRE
SMALL TOWN OVERWHELMED ; IN ALBERTA INHABITANTS WITHOUT FOOD | i | (Received 0.5. a.m.) EDMONTON (Alberta), Thurs. | All of the 200 inhabitants of the : town of Thorliild, 50 miles north of I here, arc homeless, many without clothing and all without food but being sheltered in the available floor space of farmhouses as the result of a bush lire on Wednesday evening. It was swept by a strong wind and like an inferno broke upon the town almost before the danger was realised. There was no loss of life, although | some suffered burns, the majority of these being children. All escaped jin their night clothes. The property I loss totals £30,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 821, 15 November 1929, Page 9
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