CHECKED BY RAIN
VICTORIAN BUSH FIRES
APPALLING HAVOC.
MELBOURNE, 7th February
The disastrous South Gippsland fires have been checked by rain, but the damage is appalling. Nearly fiftyfamilies are homeless and have lost everything. Many have only scant clothing.
Numbers of people who escaped are almost smoke-blinded. Some women and children took refuge in a creek for five hours, burning branches and logs falling all round them. The cries of tortured, half-burned animals were pitiful.
Two Italians plunged into the Thompson River. When they emerged not a stitch of clothing remained on them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 9
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93CHECKED BY RAIN Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 9
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