FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2350, 11 February 1893, Page 2

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

DAMAGE, £2,000,000.

(PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

BRISBANE, February 10.

At Kangaroo Point, on the south side of the river, nothing is left but piles of briok and iron.

Sutton's foundry and ship-building yards and Peacock's jam factory are entirely destroyed.

A~ large amount of looting is going on among wrecked and abandoned houses.

Some aDxiety is felt about a large quantity of dynamite stored down tbe river, which is in a dangerous condition owing to wet.

A detachment of military are being despatched to destroy the damaged portion.

It is roughly estimated that tbe damage to public and private property will amount to £2,000,000.

The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has cabled his regret at the disaster.

The relief fund collected locally amounts to £3000. .£ISOO was subsonbed at Rockhainpton. Funds are being started in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Tremendous explosions were caused by compressed air in tbe mines at Gympie> in many oases wrecking buildingß at tbe mouth of the shafts. BRISBANE,; February 10. Sixty-seven inches of rain fell in three days.

A man named Hogan was washed six miles down the river. Eventually be managed to climb a tree, but he was so severely bitten by scorpions and centipedes which had taken refuge in it that he died after reaching, tbe shore.