AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES
m VICTORIAN OUTBREAKS ENORMOUS DAMAGE CAUSED. TWO LIVES LOST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, January 13. Bush fires raged throughout the State tho whole day, causing enormous damage, but with the exception of Gippsland, where they are still burning, a cool change ass'sted the fiio fighters to control the outbreaks. So far one fatality has been reported, a volunteer fire fighter named Barton losing his life. Outbreaks in the maleo country were followed by a hurricane, which uprooted trees and demolished houses, adding to the already heavy damage. A boy named Heley was , riding with his father in a motor truck when the hurricane blew the truck off the road, fatally impaling the boy on a fence.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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119AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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