TERRIBLE DESOLATION AT IPSWICH.
RAILWAY PASSENGERS CAMPED AND SERVED WITH FOOD BY BOAT.
MINES COLLAPSED,
HOUSES FLOATING ABOUT.
SYDNEY, February* 7. Northern rivers are in flood, and maob damage bas been done to maize at Clarence, while at Tweed nearly all the early maize has been rained. ROOKHAMPTON, February 7. Eleven miles of railway hai been washed away near here. No loss of life is reported. At Towoomba the flood it steadily declining.
At Ipswich there are terrlibe scenes of desolation, and tbe streets are in a frightful mess, emitting a horrible stench. The Governor bai reached Ipawicb, but is unable to get to Brisbane. A fund for tbe relief of sufferers has been started. PassengiM by Sydney trains hfiva been camped at Redbank since Friday, and provisions are despatched to them by boat. A man named Heenan and his lister have been oarried away in a boat at Goodna, and it is feared they have perished. Tbe Gillich family is aafe.
A mine at Blaokatooe and another at Bandama have collapsed. Tbe water fan reached tbe top of tbe Catholic flhnttb in Goodna, and houses are floating about in all directions; It is surmised th* whole country between Woleton and Btiibant if one sheet of water.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2346, 7 February 1893, Page 2
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207TERRIBLE DESOLATION AT IPSWICH. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2346, 7 February 1893, Page 2
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