Hundreds of Homes Flooded in Sydney

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7063, 24 January 1933, Page 7

Hundreds of Homes Flooded in Sydney

WHOLE FAMILY TRAPPED IN LANDSLIDE MORE WILD WEATHER FOR SHIPPING Received Monday, 7.5 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Reports indicate that tho rcßUlt of last night’3 rain is tho most serious for years. Hundreds of homes aro flooded in Waterloo, Alexandria and neighbouring suburbs. People awoke to find their beds almost awash.

A cyclonic gale added to the miseries of the situation. A number of large shop windows near the Central railway station were smashed.

The tram services wero delayed on many lines by accumulated water on the low-lying spots. The railway services are interrupted on both the Southern and Illawarra lines. The latter is badly affected for fifteen to twenty miles.

Coogee and Kensington ovals have been turned into lakes, the water entering the neighbouring houses.

The Nepean river roso 14 feet at Penrith, where the water is three feet deep in the main street. Liverpool is isolated as far as road traffic is concerned. Coastal shipping movements were hampered during the early hours of this morning and the Weather Bureau warns shipping that wild weather is still expected around the New South Wales coast.

Six campers were rescued from a flooded island in the Georges river by a boat, which was rushed from Liverpool on a lorry. Many camps were washed away and the occupants spent a perilous time awaiting daylight. A whole family was trapped in a cottage which was engulfed in a landslide at Helensburgh, a small mining town on the Illawarra line. A boy aged 15 was smothered and rescuers are working feverishly to save the othors. A fireball struck a house in Young, narrowly missing a hoy who had just boen called, from bed by his mother.