The Queensland Floods.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2892, 7 February 1893, Page 3

The Queensland Floods.

APPALLING DEVASTATION.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Sydney, Feoruary 6. Reports from Toowoouiba state the water is receding in Ipswich, though it is still at a high level. It is believed twenty-two lives have been lest, but nothing definite can be ascertained till the floods subside. The Governor, who is residing at Toowoomba, has left on a pilot engine to try to reach Ipswicb. Communication between Toowoomba and Brisbane is still interrupted. It is reported that a family named Gellick numbering seven has been drowned. By means ot another line communication has been opened with Rockhampton, and hundreds of people are homeless at Bundaberg, and are sheltering in churches and public buildings. There is appalling devastation in Maryborough. Tt is reported that a bridge collapsed, drowning thirty persons, but the report lacks confirmation The town is in darkness, the gasworks being submerged, and hundreds of houses have been washed away. Granville is inundated. The schooner Marchioness of Lome drifted three miles, and Captain Suges was washed overboard and drowned. Some of the leading business premises are complete wrecks, and Howard Smith's wharf and Walker's shipyards have been washed away. A man named Bell was drowned in 1 Gympie. The main street is thirty feet under water. No further details have been received, but news from Brisbane is expected by the steamer reaching Sydney to-morrow. Receive.! February 7, 11 50 a.m.) Sydney, February 7. All northern rivers are in flood, and much damage has been done to the maize crop at the Clarence, while at the Tweed nearly all the early maize has been ruined. RocKHAMPTON, February 7. Eleven miles of railway have been , been washed away but no loss of life . is reported. At Toowoombathe flood is steadily ! decreasing*? At Ipswich there are i terrible scenes of desolation, and the J streets are in a frightful mess, emitting ! a horrible stench. The Governor has ] reached Ipswich, but is unable to get i to Brisbane. A fund for relief of the sufferers has been started. Passengers by the Sydney train have been camped at Redbank since Friday, and provisions are despatched to them by boat. A man named Heenan and his sister have been carried away in a boat at Goolwa, and it is feared they have perished. The Gellick family are safe. Thorehole mine at Blackstone, and Lindsay mine at Bundama, have collapsed. The water has reached the top of the Catholic Church in Gooliva, and houses are floating about in all directions. It is surmised that the whole country between Woolsfcon and Brisbane is one sheet of water. I