BUSH FIRES.
LARGE AREA SWEPT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
HUNDREDS OF SHEEP BURNT
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Australian Press Association. Received this day, 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, this day.
A Barallier ifiessage states that bush fires are sweeping over a fifteen mile front between Wollondilly and Abercrombie Rivers. The outbreak has been increasing in intensity for days. More than ten thousand acres have been swept. Station properties and fencing were burnt out. Lachlan Lang’s homestead at Bindoch Station was gutted and Lang, who was surrounded by flames, had a narrow escape from death. Mounting a terrified horse, he managed to gallop through the thinnest part of the fire. It is feared, that hundreds of sheep were burnt to death.
Helped by a strong wind the fire became beyond- control. Yerrandene silver mine and several homesteads are in imminent danger.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 January 1929, Page 5
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