DROVING DISASTER.
SHEEP KILL EACH OTHER.
A Winton (Q.) message in the Sydney Morning Herald, gives particulars regarding the disaster to a largo flock of sheep, bound from Avon Downs. They show that they had covered 30 miles out of 35 miles of a dry stage, when the sheep rushed into a small belt of timber. They surrounded the tree trunks in a frantic endeavour to obtain shade, thoee behind leaping on to those in front. Hundreds were smothered. Carcases were piled up round the tree trunks. Out of 5600 only 830 were saved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14587, 25 January 1911, Page 5
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94DROVING DISASTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14587, 25 January 1911, Page 5
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