BUSH FIRES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
A TOWNSHIP DESTROYED. SEVENTY PERSONS KILLED. THOUSANDS HOMELESS. Received August 4, 9 a.m. VANCOUVER, 8.C., August 4. It is reported that great damage has been caused by bush fires in British Columbia. A township has been destroyed and five thousand people rendered homeless. One hundred persons were injured and seventy killed. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling. Other towns are threatened by the fire.
FIRE STILL RAGING
DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO £4,000,000.
Received August 4, 9.45 p.m. VANCOUVER, August 4 A great bush fire in the Kootenay Valley, in British Columbia, is stil! raging. It is reported that eight hundred lives have been lost. Ten thousand persons are homeless. The damage amounts to four million pounds. Seven towns have been destroyed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9159, 5 August 1908, Page 5
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128BUSH FIRES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9159, 5 August 1908, Page 5
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