FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 5

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED BABY’S DRAMATIC BIRTH i [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] 1 (Received January 5, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 5. A violent storm, accompanied by torrential rain, and severe hail occurred on the northern coastal tablelands districts. A cyclone at Inverell unroofed ■houses and outbuildings. Storm water channels overflowed and business places were flooded. Farmers’ crops were flattened. Creeks and rivers in the Kyogle district overflowed their banks. Extensive damage was caused to roads, and bridges. The telephone and telegraph wires are down. Storms of hurricane violence swept Toowoomba, and razed fences and sheds. ■ The city business places were flooded. Many houses were unroofed. The towns of Wyruma and Pittsworth were plunged in darkness, when flying roofing iron cut the electric cables. The main roads are impassable. The Yarrambah mission launch, Clam, forty tons, was caught by cyclonic blows on rounding Cape Grafton near Cairns, and was wrecked on a, sandbank. The crew of eight native boys swam through the shark-infested waters to the shore. A baby was born in an ambulance car which stalled in a flooded creek, crossing at upper Tallebudgora. The mother' and infant are both doing well. VESSEL’S ROUGH TRIP. AUCKLAND, January 5. The Eastern freighter Narbada, which arrived to-day from Calcutta, experienced a hurricane off the Queensland coast,, during which three Lascars were injured, and some damage was done on the deck. On one day, the .ship covered only 41 miles. , CALIFORNIAN FLOODS LOS ANGELES, January 3. With the missing people added to the total of the bodies recovered, the deluge death list is now 80. Many bodies have been washed to sea, or buried beneath the debris. The rainfall for two days amounted to the Southern Californian average for- a whole year. It is estimated that it will take a month to repair the city’s streets and remove the debris and mud.