IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
VILLAGE WIPED OUT
HEROIC POSTMISTRESS
ADELAIDE, January 10.
Terrific heat throughout South Australia culminated today in the complete destruction by fire of the small village of Mount Torrens, 30 miles from Adelaide. Its 15 houses and shops and the post office are all gone.
The postmistress heroically remained on duty till the switchboard with which she summoned help was destroyed. Hundreds of sheep have perished.
Other fires, which were aided by temperatures ranging to 116 degrees, are travelling at high speed, defying the fire-fighters' efforts all over the country.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 9
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