DEVASTATING BUSH FIRES.
: IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. " " A TOWN DESTROYED. ■Vancouver, August 3. Bush bres destroyed the township of Ttetme in British Columbia. Frtc thousand people are homeless. •ne hundred have been injured and ffeveuty killed. I The loss of property- is estimated at I Jflf a million pounds sterling. » I Other towns are threatened with de-
struction, FIRES STILL RAGING. EIGHT HUNDRED LIVES LOST. SEVEN TOWNS DESTROYED. TOUR MILLION POUNDS DAMAGE. Received 4, 9.45 p.m. Vancouver, August 4. The great bush fire at Kootenay Vai l«y, British Columbia, is still raging. It is reported that eight hundred lives have been lost and ten thousand ren dered homeless.* The damage is estimated at four million pounds. Seven towns have been destroyed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 193, 5 August 1908, Page 3
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120DEVASTATING BUSH FIRES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 193, 5 August 1908, Page 3
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