RECORD FLOODS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 5

RECORD FLOODS.

: A-REPORT OF FOUR FATALITIESi ' COMMUNICATIONS CUT. 'By TelemaDU—tress Association—Copyricht )i ■ ■ Sydnay, January 1?. • ; VSo\\ rapidly"was'.' the;rise i'df■'the.'flood. ;at-"Tawv\'orth'tiiat several hundred peopio .wefe Mught. iii.-.their.. business places, aiid cut oil' lioiii-lood Vgilppliea ; ior : sixteen ,: C ! '. :V

.-Uany were compelled, to tako refuge ;6n : tKe'\yOTiiudaiift , 'aMd-''rb9fs'.<)if,.tlio';b'uild-' ■ings.;;" X huinber':. of : feehsaUonal' ineidshts aiicigallahbrescues.ai'tf ■ repbrtedi;'v/;/ >/■■■

lin :,the-suftbiinilihg; districts thousands 'bf 'large numbers of horses .and'cattle/'.'were;' drowned. .The '.havoc wrought in the business;-portion ofthe town is immense,. : .. .. .'; • •-. '.

Shop Stotks Washed Dowrt 'the Streets. The : scene at the height' of the flood was^mdesoribilile; / the heavy debris, was swejjt along, it smashed • doors and windows,. and stock was: carried out' of the shops :in large quantities. . '

The streets, , as. the waters subsided, .were: littgred iwiih: furniture; ;ahd;' stock-in-trade ' of:: aU . .descriptions, ' and senteil a[l remarkable ; apjiehrauce. . : .. : • The. flood at; Narrabr! .wasthe highest kiibwn.Laf gei areas ':,p£^/the'surrounding districts wel-e. sabme'rjjed, causing : wide-, spread .damage. V jreie:. 'coiflpeiled.tb.iieave. .their homes. Owners succeeded in getting ;most of . their--■ stock on :to high ground before the; tvofst; Came- - . ;. .'At Guniledali. tio lower . part of' the town- • was ■ flooded,'/ some';;of:- the :^houses ■ °P . to .- the eaves.- ;i -The J residents"' have •taken - refuge ; 'in' public buildings.V; -': ; - 'ftvo men. are reported Bils'sing;.' Tho couutry was h sea for ten miles-round. Many-residents spent the night ,on roofs ,trees, ; : ! : . Houses Carried Bodily Away. • r , - The . township of;; Carroll was swept by the : flOod : watefd, - and' Edme ' .ivQfe carried bodily away., Furnitulre and dead stoiib. littered the riVmi'-.-.-Tha .losses of: heavy. , At Narrabri and Moree tho full extent ( '^ ln ago is not,\known.''.'Nothing further;has been .as .to. the re-i. pbited drowning of four men at Mbtee ,Gfeat traots of afe imuidated. Ailatest reports, the iwatcrs vein slowly ' Farmers along tho valley country sufj ;fered i

'.in^the'lnoftded" districts. is : haa^; :V ,.Ther£ ■.r^T®'.'. ! .^® n r zimneroui* washaways* and many bridges. have been, destroyed.. • V' tel^ains.''.'report'. h&vy riiin and floods at Dalby. RAILWAY TRAFFIC (Rec. January 18, 10,10 a m) Sydney, January 17. , traffio;- between , Inverolt and 'Morels is .stopped,-and is not. likely to bo .restored. tovj some ticetd owing lapse of a bridge The destruction of two other bridges i~£?j locked tlieliUG. betweeu Worialda and Bintfara. s REPORTED capsize of a boat.

TELEGRAPHIST FORCED TO QUIT. (Rco, January 18, 0.16 a.m.) Sydney, January 17, ■A teloffram; from - Weewaa''say ß.; it' ii re-; POI ted !>thftt: cL -Jioit / was. capsized, - and that, a toafl-nfirndd -Grace 1 and;, lus ! wife, and' a .Mrs.' : Chapman'arid her. daughter, XGrGorowhed.':' , ; ; ■ '■

Tho telegram added that tha biggest flood on rccord was running and tliat the operator was then;'jeaving tho office, ; thb 'v : ■ 4-Telegrapliio .comimuucafcionV has ' since been interrupted.