CLEANSING THE TOWN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 7

CLEANSING THE TOWN.

DANGER NOT YET OVER. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE RAILWAYS. INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 19th January. The reason of the magnitude of the flood was that rain fell uniformly heavily over the entire wateished, the rivers thus rising simultaneously. Streets and houses in the towns where the flood waters have receded are in a terrible state, with slush, debris, and dead animals. Gangs of men are clearing these away. The Namoi and Barwon rivers are rising rapidly, and still enormous bodies of water come down. Afc Walgett and other towns along the lower reaches, the people are preparing for big floods, stock and property being removed to places of safety. The extent of damage to the railways may be gathered from the fact that there are forty washaways between Inverell and Delungra, a distance of twenty-five miles. Many of the smaller bridges have collapsed, but none of the larger ones. Big gangs of men are engaged repairing the lines. Many sensational experiences are reported. A blackfellow was rescued a Her floating two days on a log. A widow and her four children were rescued when water was up to the woman's armpits as she stood on a table. At Gunnedah, Alderman Brooker fo<md a man sitting on a piano in his house. The flood waters had carried him in, and he had spent the night on top of the instrument — the only place of saidt.y. A man named Huxley was drowned at Bingara.