FLOODS IN VICTORIA
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION INTERRUPTED. SOME REMARKABLE INCIDENTS. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, June 21. The floods hare caused numerous land slides and was'haways. Railway ooramunicatdon is badly interrupted. Healesville, a.bout forty miles to the north of Melbourne, is partly .submerged, and .severall residents have vacated their houses. At Cora Lynn a resident took his horse and some cows into his house, to save them from drowning. Another resident lias been sharing his dwelling for several days with thirty pigs. At M&kloav a 'tramp who was camped on the bank of a creek is missing. His effects were found, covered with mud, and debris. At "Warhurton, the river is over a mile wide, and a variety of pror perty is floating down.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 5
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124FLOODS IN VICTORIA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 5
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