BOSH FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 7

BOSH FIRES.

DEATHS -FROM HEAT APOPLEXY.

, fit TBiifcottArn,— rasas association—copieiobt.) _ ' ■•' , \"i , Sydney, January 5. J Bush ires are sweeping tho country round Yass. Many, settlers are burned out.

Women and'children woro rescued in wet Others took refuge in tho river.

The damage at Yass is estimated at over SlOOjOOtr. " Helped by a strong wind, tho flames travelled at the rate of fifteen miles on hour. i , 'pacing. districts on the South Coast, Singleton, Dungog, Bathurst, Wagga, andi dther ? oarts of tho State, are suffering severely.

There have been numerous destructive outbreaks in" tho township of Bomaderry, v'e&t 'N^w'ra.- ' ThP Gr,enfell district is surrounded by firesyfand round Gundagai 50,000 acres of grassejfos' been destroyed. The fires are stifle yoking unchecked. , The'township of NowTa was ringed by >jires, .and it was only by great efforts of /..the Jiro brigade, assisted by hundreds of i townsfolk, that the place'was saved.

• The intense heat has caused severe injury to- tho fruit crops everywhere. Thousands, of pounds' worth of stone fruits, grapes,, and tomatoes are shrivelled up and destroyed

At Brewarrina tho thermometer registered 123 degrees in tho shade. Numorous cases of heat apoplexy are reported., *