Burning Coal-Mine Menaces Township
YALLOURN IN PERIL INFERNAL CRATER BELOW (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright > Reed. 11 a.m. MELBOURNE. To-day. With an old open cut of the Yallourn coal-mine a blazing inferno, and bush tires advancing behind a 40-mile wind, the township of Yallourn is in grave peril. Men. women and children are desperately fighting the flames. The homes of over 1.000 people are menaced. The settlement rests on the top of the cut. The mine is now a blazing crater, with flames shooting 150 feet into the air. Four homes have been destroyed. A powder magazine blew up. Since then trucks, winches, electrical equipment and coal-winding gear have been crashing into the cauldron of flame. Extensive fires also occurred at Stradbrooke. Eleven hundred acres of grassland were burned and 300 sheep perished. A Bombala message reports that bush fires enclosed the town yesterday. In one district the whole of the residents are fighting the flames, which are raging in all directions. A well-known grazier had 500 sheep burned. A lire also raged all day at Buckley Springs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 9
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177Burning Coal-Mine Menaces Township Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 9
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