A Western Holocaust
In 1988, on the 70th anniversary of the disastrous 1918 bush fires on Willoughby, Saltern Creek and Rodney Downs, the members of the Barcaldine Historical Society placed a plague in the vicinity of the fires …
A K Jones
Disastrous bush fires of 1918
On 29 and 30 October 1918, bushfires claimed the lives of seven stockmen on Saltern Creek, Willoughby and Rodney Downs stations. Their deaths were recorded as: ‘an unfortunate accident, owing to the very hot dry …