COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1913, Page 6

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BY FI/lOD AND FIRE. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Adelaide, February 15. A rainstorm did extensive damage in South Australia to railway, roads, bridges, and private property, Critichley, the driver of a derailed train, was washed away and drowned; his body was recovered suspended from a tree seven miles distant. Melbourne, February 15. The western portion of Castlemaiue is flooded and is unapproachable. The southern portion is cut oil’, the creek overflowing and doing much damage to low'-lying houses. Three inches of rain fell in Bendigo, where business places and private houses were flooded. A fire at Outtrim destroyed Mrs Lattersby’s house and drapery establishment, the Post and Telegraph Office,. Mrs Rankin’s store, Hoarley’s Hotel,' Board’s butcher’s simp and house, Ward’s' house, and the Baptist Church. Other buildings were scorched. Nino months ago a fire destroyed ei*;ht shops in the same block, thereof only one was re-built, so that one end of the town is now' gone.