FIRES IN TASMANIA.
BNORMOU3 DESTRUCTION. HUNDREDS HOMELESS. [PUB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received 9, 10.11 a.m.) Hobabt, February 9, QueenSlownhttflbeen partly destroyed by h«a. Hundred* are homeless. The fires w*ra aes'Bted by a wind of hurricane force, and approached on three .sides. is completely suspended. The whole of the wsideuts ate fighting the flames and saving propeity. Tbe first fire swept away the tettlement at Conglomerate Cieek then at tack«d the town proper, Tbe fight wan continued all through Thursday and the greiter part of the night. The dinger of the situation was added toby he uDroofing of bouses by tbe gale. Sheets of galvanizid iioa were blown about like p 'for. It it fcttionattd that about (ixty bouses were burned in arid around the town including about twenty in the maißJStree'.f. Tbe suffe.erfi are taking refuge in ■fie ptrW;c buildings. At Gtrmanstown and Linda Valley a, number of ! ous?*» were also destroyed. l'he wbolp <■( Mount Lyth mountan i* ablaze. S kip damage was dine to tbe mining pto; eity, »hicb was only naved from total detrmt oa by the txirUon <§f large gi' g* of men. The woru' of tht- fin>e is now over.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 33, 11 February 1901, Page 3
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