FRIGHTFUL FLOOD AT THE THAMES.
The severest and most destructive flood ever experienced at the Thames occurred on Saturday night. The rain was incessant for forty-eight hours, and all the creeks were so flooded as to carry away bridges and bring down thousandsjof tons of debris. Two men were washed sway. About fifty million feet of bulk timber was washed to the booms at the Short!and mills, and millions were washed to sea. The damage to the town was very great. The Borough Corporation put on fifty men to repair the damages, and it is estimated that they will require £SOOO to make good the injury to culverts, streets, etc. The domestic water supply race, and some of the country races have been destroyed, and the water cut off. Many small dwellings were washed away, and much damage lias been done to batteries. The captain of the Rotomahana states that he saw a waterspout break over the town as he approached it from Auckland. The estimated damage of the flood is £20,000 to local works, County waterrace, Borough reservoirs, culverts, creeks, and bridges. Some storekeepers qre completely mined. The opinion is now confirmed that it is the result of a waterspout, for localities each side of the Borough are comparatively little injured.
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Patea Mail, 21 July 1881, Page 4
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