GREAT TASMANIAN FIRE.
A Whole Town nearly Destroyed.
Fire, Gale, and Flying Sheets of Iron. [per press association. —COPYRIGHT.] Received this day at 10 ll a.m, Hobart, This Day. Queenstown is partly destroyed by bush fires. Hundreds are homeless.
The fires were assisted by a wind of lurricano force which approached on diree sides.
Business is completely suspended, and :he whole of the residents arc fighting :he flames and saving property.
The first swept away was the settlement at Conglomerate Creek.
The flames then attacked the town propci'. The fight was continued all through Thursday and the greater part of the night.
The danger of the situation was added to by the unroofiing of houses by the gale and sheets of galvanised iron being blown about like paper. It is estimated that about sixty houses were burned in and around the town, including about twenty in the main streets.
The sufferers arc taking refuge in public buildings at Gormanstown. In Linda Valley a number of houses were also destroyed. The whole of Mount Lycll mountain is ablaze.
Some damage was done to mining property, which was only saved from total destruction by the exertions of large gangs of men. The worst of the fires are now over.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 February 1901, Page 3
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207GREAT TASMANIAN FIRE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 February 1901, Page 3
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