PEOPLE OF LISMORE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 9

PEOPLE OF LISMORE

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

SEVEEAL FATALITIES

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, Bth February. Upward of 5000 people have been driven from their homes at Lismore owJng to floods. The town is in a state of indescribable confusion. Speed bouts are racing up and down the stroots with homeless people, and members of the telephone exchange are leaving for work in boats. Household furniturej.id floating about in three feet of watejs. . In the .majority of shops men, women, and childTem are moving about in bathing costunjes. Carl Wilkinson, diving under a house, to rescue something, was hit on the head by a injection and drowned. Another man, attompting to save himself by holding .on to the tail of a horse which vaa swimming through the torrent, was washed away, but later was rescued unconscious, and resuscitated. -■ ' Two men and* boy have been drowned in the Brisbane floods, which are now rapidly faßing. Hundreds of refugees are returning^, to their homes. While the tide was at its peak in the Brisbane Biver an Saturday, the water waß about four feet above the wharves on the northern; bank. Cattle and domestic pets wetfi drowned and were w.ashed down with the torrent.