DISASTROUS FLOOD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1667, 6 February 1913, Page 7

DISASTROUS FLOOD.

——» COUNTRY UNDER WATEft FOR MILES. FAMILIES IN ROOT TOPS. ■ By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Brisbane, February 5. A record flood is reported from Innisfail. There is 10ft. of water on the esplanado. Chinatown is to the roofs. The flood is due to the cyclone causing the river to overflow. The country is covered for only I tho house-tops and trees being visible. ? The stock losses are heavy. _ J It is not know how tho residents ill the 2 country fared, owing to there being no I communication. e The wharf almost collapsed, and a shed t was broken in halves. Tons of driftwood, t bananas, sugar-cane; dead horses, oattle, n and pigs floated downstream. I There have been no casualties yet. J The water is receding, leaving a mass I of debris on the river front and streets. c A subscription list has been opened by ( the Mayor of Brisbane. ■ . *■ (Rec. February 5, 10.10 p.m.) c Brisbane, February 5. 1 Innisfail Teporte state -that twenty £ inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours. ( There were heartrending scenes in the j flood. Many families were rescued from | housetops. Sixteen took refuge on the j roof of one house. , A man named Keith Smith was drowned 1 and also a Chinaman and a black Jin. j It is ; believed that other Chinese also per- ■ ished. Thirty-two inches of rain fell at Ku- | randa in forty-eight hours. ] A landslip deposited seven thousand ( cubio yards of 6poil on tho Herberton • R-ange railway. . <