APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE.

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

APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE.

TALES TOLD BY THE SUFFERERS. REFUGE SHARED WITH SNAKES AND SPIDERS. A HOSPITAL FLOODED. PATIENTS HAVE A ROUGH TIME. {Received January 20, 10.32 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The executive of the Public Disaster Relief Fund is appealing for assistance for sufferers by the floods. As tht> waters subside outside settlers, are arriving in the townships in a halfstarved condition, after spending a couple of days in trees or on the roofs of houses. Not the least uncomfortable part of the settlers' experiences was having to share their resting-places with, hosts of snakes, spiders, and other creeping things. ' A man at Boggabri hauled his wife and family up a tree, where they remained, secured by ropes, for a day and a night > without food. Tt is estimated that the losses in the Boggabri district amount to £40,000. Patients in the Narrabri Hospital had an uncomfortable time. The water reached a depth of four feet. The wardsmen extemporised raised beds, and the nurees had to wade round up to their waists attending to the sick. At Inverell the floods carried a horse into the fork of a tree. On the tree being cut down the animaJ walked away uninjured. Latest reports from Wee Waa state that the water has fallen four feet. The body of one of the victims of the boating disaster has been recovered. There is much distress among the homeless people. Relief boats have been sent. The postal services in the flooded areas aro at- a standstill.