BUSH FIRES.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
Melbourne, Feb. 13.
Government are supplying the immediate needs of the sufferers by the bus! fires.
Details of the fires are slowly coming to hand.
In Hamilton district sixty thousand acres of grass, many sheep, and stacks of bagged grass were burned. In Yea district two hundred square miles of grass and over three thousand sheep were burned. At Boggy Creek settlement twelve out of twenty residents were burned to death, and the post office, State school, and creamery were demolished. The damage was great in Wangaratta district, where many settlers were homeless. Much stock was lost —it is estimated . between twenty and thirty thousand. ' Westport Coal Co.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 38, 14 February 1901, Page 2
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