FIRES AND HURRICANE
DAMAGE IN VICTORIA BOY AND MAN KILLED By Cable.—-Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. Bush fires raged throughout the State the whole day, causing enormous damage, but with the exception of Gippsland, where they are still burning, a cool change assisted the firefighters to control the outbreaks. So far one fatality is reported, a volunteer fire fighter named Barton who collapsed and died in the Violet Town district. Outbreaks in Mallee were followed by a hurricane which uprooted trees and demolished houses, adding to the already heavy damage. A boy named Heley was riding with his father in a motor-truck when the hurricane blew the truck off the road, fatally impaling the boy, who was aged 14, on a nearby fence. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 11
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