FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA,
APPALLING DEVASTATION.
HUNDREDS of PEOPLE HOMELESSi
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
SYDNEY, February 6. Communication between Towoomba aidd Brisbane is still interrupted. It il reported that a family named GMiei, numbering seven, have been drowned.
By means of. another line, ootntaonijiii* tion has been opened with Bockhampton, Hnndreds of people are homeieft at Bundaberg, and are sheltering in obnrobii and pnblio buildings.
There is appalling devastation in Maty. borough. It is reported that a bridge collapsed, drowniDg thirty person!, but the report lacks confirmation. Th« toirn is in darkness, the gasworks being submerged, and hundreds of booim hat* been washed away.
Granville is inundated.
The schooner Marchioness of Lome drifted three miles, and Captain Sages was washed overboard, and drowned. Some of the leading business premise* are complete wrecks, and Howard Smith's wharf and Walkers' chip.yards have been washed away.
A man named Bell was drowned in Gympie. Tbe main street v thirty feat under water.
No farther details have been received* but news from Brisbane is expected by steamer, reaohing Sydney to-morrow.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2346, 7 February 1893, Page 2
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174FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA, Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2346, 7 February 1893, Page 2
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