BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 329, 11 February 1874, Page 3

BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA.

The recent tot weather has been accompanied by serious bush fires all over the colony, and by loss of life and much valuable property. At Broadford a house and other property was destroyed, and it was with some difficulty that the fire was prevented from extending to the farms in the neighborhood. The most serious news comes from the Plenty, where a number of persons are engaged in splitting and carting timber Huts, with their contents had to be left to their fate, and occupants had to flee for their lives. Several carters coming down from from the mountains had to abandon their drays, and with difficulty escaped^with the horses. Stacks of timber, fences and crops soon became an easy prey to the flames. The real amount of damage done is not yet ascertained. In Hamilton a horse was drawing his accustomed load when he suddenly fell down from sunstroke and died on the spot, the shafts of the dray being broken. An immense bush fire is burning at the Pyrenees, near Avoca. It has already devastated to a great extent the forest land, in the district. At Alexandra, on Friday, the inhabitants were called out to save the plant and engine buildings of the Robinson Crusoe claim from destruction by a bush fire. Several of the settlers about Williamson's Creek, near Clarendon, have been burnt out of their homesteads. The destruction is said to be very extensive in that quarter. Among the many fires burning in the neighbourhood of Smythcsdale on Friday, there was one in dangerous proximity to the powder magazine. Sergeant Wigmore, accompanied by four constables, wont up about seven o'clock in the evening, and burnt the grasß around the magazine fence. A farmer named Amor, of Swanwater, lost the whole of this season's produce by fire an Tuesday morning. A man named Tim Ryan is reported as having been sunstruck at Carlsruhe, and having since died. — " Bendigo Advertiser."

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