SERIOUS FLOODS IN VICTORIA.
MANY LIVES LOST. SOME TRAGIC HAPPENINGS. Press Association—Copy light. (.Received 11.10 i*.m.) Melbourne, September 26. The flood is the worst in th > history 'of the State. A boy aged 11 years, fell into a drain and was drowned. 'Largo passenger boats on the Maribyrnong river have boon wrecked. Telegraphic communication is s.rionsly interrupted. At Werribee an old man while delivering milk had his waggon capsized. He hung on a fence for an hour with only his head above water, and fkwlly sank. The Werribee overflowed, submerging all the low-lying land at Seymour. A man named Chiunicks, with bis wife and four children, took shelter oil the roof of a house which collapsed, and father and children were drowned, but the wife was rescued in an unconscious condition, with her dead baby clasped in her arms. Several boats laden with rescued people capsized, but iu all cases, the occupants were saved.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/STEP19160926.2.35
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 26 September 1916, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154SERIOUS FLOODS IN VICTORIA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 26 September 1916, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Copyright undetermined – untraced rights owner. For advice on reproduction of material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in