The Brisbane Floods
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [reuteh's TKLI'GRAMS. I Brisbane. January 25. The police have rescued hundreds of persons who were cut off by the floods, and did so despite the dark ness and a heavy gale which was blowing. Several people are still . missing. Communication with the ; suburbs is now chiefly by boats across tlie flood waters. During the gale two steamers broke from their moorings, and one went ashore. At Warwick th* river rose thirty feet, and there was four feet of water in ' the Government offices. Thousands of sheep have been drowned on the : Canning Downs, Toolburn, and other t-fafinns*
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 86, 27 January 1887, Page 2
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104The Brisbane Floods Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 86, 27 January 1887, Page 2
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