QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10044, 3 February 1896, Page 5

QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

FURTHER RECORDS OF DISASTER. CHURCHES DESTROYED. ROCKHAMPTON PARTLY SUBMERGED. FACE OF THE COUNTRY CHANGED. SIX LIVES LOST. RAILWAY LINE UNDER WATER. Press Association,— Teleeraph.—Copyrlrht. Brisbane, Febuary 1. The rirer at Townsville is falling slowly. The rain, excepting in the North, where it is still showery and threatens, has ceased. From the Townsrille railway shed a largo quantity of goods was swept) away. The beaches are strewn with the bodies of about) a hundred horses, cattle, dogs, etc. At Ross Island, the buildings destroyed include the Church of England, the Wes* leyan Church, and the Oddfellows' Hall. The Woodstock township was completely submerged. Ab Rockhampbon the river has broken its banks, and the town is partly flooded. The wharves are under water, which is still rising. All the place has the appearance of a great sea. The people outside the town are completely cub off, bub in no danger at) present. The railway and telegraph services continue demoralised. The railway bridges over the Rsid River and in Houghton Valley have beon destroyed. Townsvim.k, February 2. The weather has moderated and the flood waters are falling. During the cyclone the wind blew over 100 miles an hour. The face of the country is completely changed. Treos have been uprooted in all directions, and thousands of tons of sand carried over pasturo lands. By the floods at Ross Island on Monday six lives were lost through the capsizing of a boab unpaged in rescue work. The latest reports from Rockharapton state that the Dawson aud Comet rivers ai'B in high flood. Thirty three miles of the Clermont railway on the Central Line aro under water.