FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2349, 10 February 1893, Page 2

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

VESSELS LYING IN BOTANICAL

GARDENS.

MORE LOSS OF LIFE.

A LARGE RESIDENCE SWEPT AWAY.

HEARTRENDING SCENES.

PEOPLE NEARLY HEARTBROKEN

(per press association.) BRISBANE, February 9.

The gunboat Palumah and the steamer Elamany are now lying in the pathway in the Botanical Gardens, where they were deposited by the flood.

The steamer Derwent and the tug Boko are ashore near the mouth of the river.

Three lives were lost in the city through boats capsizing, and a boy named Walters and a man named Floranco were also drowned by the upsetting of a punt. Two obildren were drowned in the State schoolground.

BBISBANE, February 10.

A large residence at Hill End was swept away, and it is believed the family perished.

From Hill End to Stanley-street whole terraces of streets and bouseß are demolished.

The South Brisbane gasometer capsized) aad the streets are covered several inches deep with foul-smelling mud.

People are almost heart-broken by the ruin in which the city is involved.

The misery and suffering of the homeless are heartrendering. "Women besmeared with dirt, and almost naked, trooped into the Municipal Buildings as soon as the rooms were set apart for the 6upply of provisions.

Many sensational esoapas from death are reported.

A man was standing on the river bank yesterday when it gave way, and he was drowned before the very eyes of a orowd t who bad to look helplessly on.