SWEPT BY INLAND SEA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19665, 6 December 1933, Page 7

SWEPT BY INLAND SEA

SERIOUS FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

WIDE AREA MENACED BY FLOODS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 5, 7.0 p.m.) MELBOURNE, December 5. The town of Pyramid Hill, fifty-five miles northward of Bendigo is imperilled by rushing flood waters, in two huge bodies, one being fourteen miles wide, and three feet deep. This devastating inland sea is expected to reach Pyramid Hill late this afternoon. Men have been working feverishly to save the place by throwing up sandbag embankments, but the latest messages indicate that these will be useless. Furniture has been removed to the tops of houses and shops in Mologa Hamlet, in the middle of the London watershed, which is inundated. Many houses are awash. Outlying farms with irrigation systems, are hurriedly deepening the central channels, but this is unlikely to divert the water. A fourteen mile flood from Serpentine Creek and La Anecoorte Weir, has already covered the villages in Canary Island, Durhamox and the Yando. Farmers are unable to find refuge for stock, owing to the level nature of the country. STORMS IN VICTORIA DAMAGE BY ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, December 5. Another severe storm resulted in all electric subuioan train services being stopped for half an hour. Lightning burned out li miles of overhead wire, stranding thousands of passengers. A woman was paralysed by lightning at East Brunswick. A house at Northcote and three transformers were wrecked. Lights and telephones in the district were dislocated for two hours, and also damaged by lightning. A baker was badly burned when flood waters burst into his bakery, swept him off his feet, and threw him against the oven. Terrific hail fell in several suburbs. Windows were smashed in many homes. DEATH BY LIGHTNING RIDER AND HORSE KILLED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY. December 5. Thomas Wilson (18) and his horse were killed by lightning near Parkes, while mustering sheep, sixty of which were knocked unconscious. An eye-witness stated that he saw Wilson and the horse surrounded by sparks of fire. The whole scene was brilliantly lit. Wilson did not move. Then he and the horse sagged and toppled to the ground. The sheep rolled on their backs and remained with their legs in the air for about half an hour and then recovered.