QUEENSLAND.
Bbisbawe, Feb. 3. Northampton Station, in the Mitchell ! District,' has been sold for £11,000, including 28,000 sheep and 2000 head of cattle. Mr John Deucher, of G-lenallcan, is j insolvent. Heart well has been again remanded. Feb. 4. The floods have destroyed 280 yards of Wiseman's Bridge, and five miles of the railway embankment above Stan well has been carried away. The Fitzroy river is still rising. Feb. 8. On Monday at midnight a disastrous flood suddenly swept into Clermont, on the Peak Downs, drowning several;; per? sons and carrying away houses, fences, furniture, and stock. Within an hour there was quite a stream nearly five feet deep, running at the rate of eight or nine miles an hour through the townBhip. Seven persons are known to be drowned. The affrighted inhabitants rushed to the trees and house tops for shelter, and the cries of the women and children were most heartrending. When the water subsided the scene was very appalling. Dr Benson's surgery and laboratory, with medicines and instruments, were entirely swept away, not, a' vestige remaining to mark the place. One family escaped by sitting on a cross beam in a cottage. A kitchen near the telegraph office, with three inmates, was carried away, and the bodies were afterwards recovered. Mr Busacotte, ..the^ proprietor of the JPeak Downs Telegram^ with one compositor, escaped drowning by climbing a tree at the end of --the printing office, whilst the type and pl&rif; were carried down the stream. The municipal office arid new bridge are both- gone. Mr Reiner's cottage was carried across the yard. All the outbuildings in the town are destroyed, and scarcely a rod of fencing is left standing. The total damage to property is estimated at £10,000. The names of the deceased, as far as known, are William Williams, wife and children, Lewis Hickey, Rosine Elliott* Another body, name unknown,
was seen floating down the creek. In addition to these losses thousands of sheep have been carried off by the floods. Business is paralysed. The heaviest losers are Messrs Benson, Palmer, "Win ter, and Lea and Levat. At the Peak Downs station five lives were lost, and at Lilly vale four children were drowned. At Bowen a heavy cyclone occurred on the 29fch and 30th ult. It commenced at S.E. and veered round to N., with blinding rain. It did a good deal of damage in the town. Four houses were blown down, and many others were unroofed and stripped of verandahs. A man named Jackson was killed by his house falling, and his wife was injured. The Black Prince sailed before the gale, but returned safely. There ha* been more damage done than in the cyclone of 1867. Feb. 10. [ A letter written by a resident of Roma states that the Cooper's Creek natives have spread a rumour that there is a white man living with the blacks a long way to the west of Roma, or north-west. It is also stated that the white man is the last surviving representative of a large party of Europeans, who reached the locality many " summers " ago. The reason why he stayed wa3 that he was crippled and unable to travel. His companions all died of fever. Some suppose that this story relates to Leichhardt'B last expedition. . , Feb. 11. The Government intend bringing an action against Sir Charles Fox, the English agent for Queensland, for certifying to worthless railway plant shipped to the colouy. Rockha-Mptoit, Feb. 3. Great floods have . occurred on the Fitzroy River, by which the railway and other works were damaged. Feb. 4. The French war steamer Guichen put in here on Saturday in a damaged condition, to undergo repairs. A public dinner has been given to the officers, and other entertainments are proposed. ■ Feb. 7. The rainfall for the past five days is 22 inches. The railway has been much damaged, and 280 yards were entirely swept away at "Wiseman's bridge. Yamba township was totally submerged.
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Southland Times, Issue 1214, 22 February 1870, Page 3
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