Loss of Life.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7159, 9 February 1901, Page 2

Loss of Life.

Great Destruction of

Property.

I Received February 9, 916 a.m. MBLIJOUKWI-'ebtiiary 9. ielegrapliic uonnuimiciuioi. m many district* has been inti-mip-,, d by th'-'j I bush iircs. the storm acnmpai.vmwhich reached a velocity cf ii:tv ui^clan hour, J " _ 'I'hciirea were especially destructive vi trio Birregurri and Coke .iU.ie;* a -.d were started by a spa.k from v train. Agaie ooumd swept evui-vtliing before it, and uousa ait.r bouse was 3Vl allowed It was horn the boys JJcCaiium and kuDoiWd lost i.heir Jives. They KOt st-pauited irom iheu- paroms itj the cjmlusiun, and ci.^-ii- cam-red remains wev C uutrwaros louncl. Ki.jvsv/c-]] died as the ivsu!t ol bun-; rceeivea in ii«hti llg ib o lianies. . i'lvo other fighlo™ were sovoivlv injured, and wero roiiioved to the hj.soi- ' taJ. j.u-0 arc in a cn;.ical eoitdi', on. " Anoiher man mimed O jjnci, in c£c:ipi_, iK . WiW shn.wu from hi 3 hor it and ms icg was Dio^en. The lna.mjjor of tha local bu If and otiurs say.d their famLies by placing As.tJiony's i^usiiy Psirlt c:r-l::<n ' 0 -?t ;i): the am-s and iei/cisig, and bOU" sL-o'"a and cat'le. in the Caniprvdown district many, lanus mid stuticus wcro (]fv:iatatcd ihc Yielma • -stale i-nisi wan swept ana pnicf.i«tl!y destroyed. i Iv the noi-:h-t;astjrii d:slrici: the firea ' arc tho worst ever icnown. I Eeeeived February G, IQ.H a , n# Hobakt. Fcbruaiy 9. Queonsfcown.bas been partly do.si'.-ovod ' by bush tiros and hundreds nrc hoiuelc S 3. I lhe ures, assisted by wind of hurricane i force, approached ihc town on three ,-udcs ,' Business whs completely nusnended. the i wbole of the inhabitants being oya'^d ] iv fighting the flames and savi^ property. ° It first swept away the settlement of Cong,oDJerate Creek, and then ai,iack«d tbe town proper. ' " The fight was continued all thi-ou^r-Tbursday umi the greater part of the ] The danger of th e situation was added to by tho unroofing of houses by the us .born, twenty in the n»i o S At Goriuanstown and Landa Vall»v Js il ? f Mour-fc Lycll mountain ..ablaze, pd some damago has been I llle wo«t of th. fires are now over. ! . February 9. as Hamilton, [an old man named Anderson, in try ing to rescue a borse norn a burning., stable, fell in the firo and penshed. ( ro -S ha Whole ißtriot is a blackened wilderness. A man n' v med Northfield has