TRAGEDY FEARED
■ TWELVE MEN MISSING .WIDESPREAD HAVOC United Press Association—By Electric TeleGraph—Copyrielit. (Received 12th January, 11 a.m.) 1 SYDNEY, This Day. ! A Bombala message reports that twelve Greeks, who wero employed as sleeper-cutters in the vicinity of the Whipstick mines, whore tho buildings were all demolished by the bush fires, are missing. Great havoc has been wrought among the road camps. At Mount Darragh ' a largo powder magazine blew utj ; burling rock and planking hundreds of yards. C. Farrell, a carrier, was driving a wagon loaded with petrol, when the flarjes set fire to the wagon. Farrell liberated the horses before the exploding petrol shattered the vehicle.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9
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107TRAGEDY FEARED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9
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