The Queensland Floods.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2893, 8 February 1893, Page 2

The Queensland Floods.

■»■ . ■— [P?B FRB33 ASSPCJATJOJT.J llc«khampton, February 7, A train has arrived from Brisbane, and brings news that the city is in a deplorable condition. Victoria Bridge, connecting North and South Brisbane, has been destroyed, and Oxley Creek bridge is also demolished. . Several of the mines at Gympie are fldoded. Sydney, February 7. There are no si<?ns of the steamers which were expected to arrive from Brisbane to-day, and it is surmised that they have been unable to leave owing to the floods. If this surmise is correct no news will be received, juitU railway or ,sdggJ*|>hi<r" r "cftm- •- - niunication ii| restored. A repartee on the Ipswich paper succeeded at great personal' risk in making his way by boat through the flooded country to Brisbane and back. He says that there are 8 to 10 feet of water in Queen street, the principal thoroughfare in Brisbane, and 35 feet in Stanley street. Victoria Bridge and Indooroopilly railway biidge are destroyed, and from this cause alone the loss is £250,000. The gas and water supplies m the city are cut off. Over five hundred, houses have bqeri washed away, and the Botanical Gardens are under water.. There is. terrible devastation in the vicinity of Breakfast Creek, and hundreds oi families are. qamping in boats, haying been forced by thp height of the watep tg feaye their hoqiet, A 4 (»r 94 (|

known at present only four persons have been drowned. Houses are lying about in the streets in every direction. The water is now receding. The Governor has reached Brisbane^ in safety. One firm, Messrs Wilson and Co., estimate their loss at ,£12,000, and the woollen factory at £4000. In many of the warehouses in the city the water is twenty-five feet deep. The disaster is the most appalling in the history of Australia. Ipswich, February 7A man, named Jardine, has been drowned in the floods. The whole country is an unutterable scene of desolation. In the Mary Valley hundreds of families are homeless, and in Gympie two hundred houses have been swept away.