FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 221, 6 February 1913, Page 5

FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.

IXXISFAIL UNDER WATER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Brisbane, February 5. Innisfail reports a record Hood, with ten feet of water 011 the esplanade. Chinatown is submerged to the roofs. The flood was due to the recent cyclone causing the river to overflow. The country is covered for miles, ami only the housetops and trees are visible. The losses are heavy. It is unknown how residents in the country have fared, owing to there being no means of communication. The wharf almost collapsed, and the .shed was broken in halves. Tons of driftwood, bananas, sugarcane, dead horses, cattle and pigs floated downstream. There have been 110 casualties yet. The water is receding, leaving a mass of debris on the , river front and in the streets. A subscription list has been opened by the Mayor. j SEVERAL DEATHS. PIIEXO.MENAL RAIXFALL. Received 5, 10.40 p.m. Brisbane, February 5. Tnnisfail reports twenty inches of rain in twenty-four hours. There were heartrending scenes as families were rescued i fiom housetops. Sixteen took refuge in one house. Keith Smith was drowned, also a J Chinaman and a black gin, and it is be- J lieved that other Chinese perished. J Thirty-two inches of rain fell at Kuranda in forty-eight hours. A landslip of seven thousand yards occurred on the I llerberton Range on the railway. j