BUSH FIRES
REFUGE IN A CREEK SURVIVORS’ TRYING ORDEAL (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Melbourne, February 7. Tlie disastrous Skiutli Gippslair.l fires have been cheeked by rain, hut the damage is appalling. Nearly 50 families are homeless and have lost everything. Many have only scant clothing. ( Numbers of people , who escapare almost smoke-blinded. . Some >vomeu and children took refuge in a creek for live hours, burning branches and logs falling all roun 1 them. The cries of tortured, halfburned pi) niuls were pitiful. Two Italians plunged into the Thompson river. When they emerged not a stiteli of clothing remained on them.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3640, 8 February 1932, Page 7
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