PHENOMENAL FLOODS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 66, 17 March 1908, Page 5

PHENOMENAL FLOODS.

ESCAPES AND A FATALITY. HEAVY DAMAGE DONE. SYDNEY, March 16. Communication with Queensland has been dislocate., through the floods. Three miles of telegraph lines have been washed away. Thousands of sheep and cattle ar e surrounded by flood waters at Boggabri, N.S.W., where the downpour is the heaviest for 60 years. (Received 10.30 ajn.) SYDNEY, this day. The latest reports from the flooded districts show that the water is receding in Tamr>orth main street, where it was waist-deep. Much damage has been done to business premises. The caretaker of the showground and his family were rescued from the roof of their house. A youth named Ponsonby was drowned while attempting to swim the river. Round Boggabri, Narrabri, Gunnedah ; nnd Wawa wide areas of crops are sub-' 1 merged, and it is feared that much ' damage has been done and that serious • losses have resulted to stock. : Xarrabri cemetery is under water, and ;' funerals are blocked. The railway is flooded for miles and 1 many washe.ways have occurred. The service is thoroughly dislocated. i The farmers along the lower reaches of the Manning River will lose heavily, j 1 The Stanford Merthyr colliery at Kurri- I kurri is flooded and work has been i stopped. j