BUSH FIRES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 14 February 1927, Page 6

BUSH FIRES

(Per Press Association—Copyrid MELBOI RNE. Feb. 11 The bush fires continue to n many miles of country between & lake and Croydon, leaving a trad desolation and blackened ruin. It is believed that Mr Speed, ti taking the children almost to the■ road, returned in an attempt to I the house and was followed baiktyl children. Seeing them in ditiwdt. account of sinokc, it :s suppo-edk" to return with them to the road." all three were overcome by tk * and smoke and died in the flan*s- - Speed’s other three escaped uninjured Mi s Speed was absent from ' x,Bi tli e time. The grass in the whole 'l'' ll ’® loyg. and dry as tiiidor. 111 strong wind the fir.' rushed » cn * country at n rate wh ih math 1111 possible for the fire iighhis to tk the advance. The best they was to divert to some extent tk from settlers’ homes Scarcely a man was to bo se?n in townships of the affected are®Many feats of heroism and o’” were performed. MELBOURNE. L A fire, burning on a t rilll ‘ “ miles, driven by a gusty, kswept through thousands ot scrub and grazing groin’d-' Kangaroo Grounds over tk ' a,ra ' Wonga Park. . ,j It is estimated that cc " , men are fighting the flames. • now moving towards Croydon The damage is enormous, s- ( the weather changes the twelve months age. when f”* their lives, may be repeal I