SEVERAL LIVES LOST.
Received January 17, 1.15 a.m. SYDNEY, January 16. Telegraphic communication with the flooded districts is being restored. Reports which are slowly coming to hand show that immense damage has been done and several lives have been lost. The Railway Commissioners have received a wire fromj 4 Moree station thatj four men .were taking a boat alongside train, which|was surrounded by the boat capsized, and all were drowned. No details are available, g A wide area ground Gunnedah ia under water. [Boats rescued people frojQ the tops of stacks and houses, where they had takenjrefuge. Numhers of narrow [escapes are reported. A rescue boat capsized, and a man is missing. The damage at Tamworth is estimated at £30,000. 2 Narrabri and .other centres have suffered severely, many people having been flooded out. Though as as Z were removed to high ground, the losses are heavy. To-day's reports are to the effect that the floods are subsiding. Ihe railway service is badly disorganised, and there are numerous washaways.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9692, 17 January 1910, Page 5
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169SEVERAL LIVES LOST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9692, 17 January 1910, Page 5
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