LATER PARTICULARS.
1000 FAMILIES FLOODED OUT. Newcastle, March 10. The water is up to the eaves of the houses near Raymond Terrace, and a steamer with boats, despatched to rescue the inhabitants, many ot whom were clinging to the roofs, brought back 300. All public buildings are crowded, and provisions are scarce. Nearly all the farmers have lost their live stock. All collieries haves been obliged to stop work, and between three and four thousand miners are thrown out of employment. All communication with Maitland is cut off. Winters' large agricultural works there have been washed away. This Day. Maitland is in i\ deplorable condition and the country round about is like an inland sea. Upwards of a thousand families are flooded out.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 112, 11 March 1893, Page 2
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123LATER PARTICULARS. Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 112, 11 March 1893, Page 2
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