BLAZE ON FORTY MILE FRONT
FHSHTERS BEING FORCED BACK
NINE HOURS SPENT IN-RIVER. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) v MELBOURNE, This Day. It is impossible as yet to obtain a detailed mortality list. At Erica an old man named bisk was caught in the flames. He tried to climb into a boiler, but the fire overcame him. W. Collins was also burnt to death. E. Biull (president of the Victorian branch of the Telegraph Union), while fighting a fire, collapsed and died. James Lang dropped dead from over-exertion, heart failure, ana
A' fire, burning on a 40-mile front „ along the Plenty Ranges, has broken into five sections, threatening Queenstown, St. Andrews, Arthur s Creek, Greenville, and Kinglake, About Queenstown and Flowerdale the fire is still uncontrolled. Huntedale is threatened. Queenstown is isolated. Between Kinglake and St. Andrews hundreds of people are fighting to Keep the fire down, but they are gradually being forced back. . , , At Noojee about oO people took refuge in the La Trobe River, and stayed there nine hours till the danger had passed. , Five high trestle railway bridges on the Warragul line have been destroyed. -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10671, 16 February 1926, Page 5
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