GREAT STORM IN AUSTRALIA.
UNPRECEDENTED RAINFALL. (Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) , (Per Press association. ) (Received 3p.m., May2Sth.) •Sydney, May 28. In consequence of the flooded state of the country railway communication is blocked in all directions. Never in the history of the department has there been such a stoppage. At Croydon, a small suburb six miles west of Sydney, thirty families were rescued by boats. The borough and town of Morrickville are submerged and the residents are leaving in boats. A rescuing boat at Windsor was wrecked, and a man'named Jenkins was drowned. There are now slight signs of abatement of the weather.
(Received 1.30 a.m., May 29th.)
Up to this evening 20 inches of rain had fallen during the storm, but it is now clearing up. A Kaima a man named Casey was drowned. The northern mail train was thrown from the rails at Muswellbrook, owing to the line being washed away. No one was injured, but one man had a narrow escape. He managed to get out through the carriage window, and had to run for his life. At Amadalo a boy. name unknown, was drowned.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5019, 29 May 1889, Page 2
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