THE BRISBANE STORM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4773, 26 January 1887, Page 2

THE BRISBANE STORM.

MORE PEOPLE DROWNED. IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY. Brisbane, to-day. Deplorable accounts continue to be received of the disasters caused by the late flood both in town and country. In Brisbane and elsewhere the police rescued hundreds of persons who were cut off by the floods, and did so despite the danger from the heavy gale blowing. j Several people are still missing and are doubtless drowned. Communication with the suburbs is now chiefly by boats across the floods of waters. During the gale two steamers broke their moorings and one went ashore at Warwick. The river rose thirty feet and there were four feet of water in the Government offices. Many thousands of sheep have been drowned on the Canning Downs, Tool- ! burra, and other stations. Later. Howard Smith and Son's s.s. Barrabool, which got loose during the gale, was washed ashore in the Brisbane river yesterday. A boat which was lowered from the vessel was swamped and two of the occupants were drowned. The Barrabool has since been floated off without any damage being done. Sydney, to-day. Heavy rain continues over the country and great floods are reported in the north. At Upper Richmond considerable damage has been done and many persons have j been rescued at imminent peril.