GREAT BUSH FIRES
FLAMES TRAVELLING MILE AN HOUR..
TRiAIN CAUGHT IN BURNING FOREST. OVER 400 PEOPLE MISSING. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright ,\ew York, August 23. The are travelling a mile an hour, and the -wind is blowing a gale. Four hundred and five persons are now missing!, mostly fire fighters and volunteers carrying supplies to forest camps. A Northern Pacific train, carrying 42 patients and 13 Sisters of Charity, fleeing from Wallace, was caught in the burning forest,' and it is believed that all on beard have perished. It is believed t>he incendiaries are men who hope that the Government will engage them at big wages to fight the flames. * 900 SOLDIERS MISSING. v •■ New. York, August- 23. Flames threaten tiie town ot fhbmp-' s*n, Montana... '■-. Sis hundred-soldiers, who left Thompson Falls on Saturday to 'fight the fire, are missing, and also 300 more in the wKte pine forests ©f Storthera Idafco.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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151GREAT BUSH FIRES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5
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