ROARING INFERNO.
TOWN MENACED WITH DESTRUCTION.
mine gear tumbles into blazing shaft. position'' aggbSMted by bush FIRES.
By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day.
.With the old open cut of tJtie Yallourn coal mine a blazing inferno, and bush fires advancing behind a 40-mili? wind, the township of Yallourn is in grave peril. Men, women and children are desperately fighting rhe flames, the homes of over a thousand people being menaced. The settlement rests on top of the Cut, and the mine is now a blazing crater, flames shootiag 150 £o*t Into the air. Four homes have been desrtrayisd: The power magazine blew up, and since then trucks, winches, electrical equipment and coal-winding""' gear have baen crashing into th° cauldron of flame. Extensive fires have also occurred at Stradbroke. Eleven hundred acres oJ grassland have been burnt out, and 300 sheep have perished.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1929, Page 5
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