Disastrous Bush Fires in Australia.
A SENSATIONAL TRAIN JOURNEY. FLAMES LEAPING INTO THE WINDOWS. (Per Press Association). Sydney, Sept. 11. A passenger train to Bathurst had a sensational experience passing tbrough the Blue Mountain District, where it bad to run the gauntlet through bush fires. The driver and fireman had their bair singed of their heads and faces. The flames leaped into the carriage windows, and burned the effects of passengers iv the racks. The dresses of two ladies caught fire, but the flames were extinguished. To-night the whole country near Mount Victoria seems on fire.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 64, 12 September 1895, Page 2
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96Disastrous Bush Fires in Australia. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 64, 12 September 1895, Page 2
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