QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4341, 10 February 1893, Page 3

QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

Terrible State of South Brisbane, lWooiißA, February 8, Quoon-stroet, tbo main thoroughfaro of Brisbane, is now free lrom water. Bridge collapsed with afearWTcrash on Sunday, shaking tbo buildings in tbo vicinity as if an earthquake had occurred. Nothing is left to mark tbo eito of tbo structure, South Brisbane is in a terrible olato, and only twenty-five houses are left standing in Stanloy-strcct, which is ono stretch of ruins. At Kangaroo Point families clung tenaciously to their belonging*, but they woro evontually forced to flco for their lives, losing all thoir possessions, Hescuing parties aro at work day and night, Many families aro living in boats covered with sails, while loss fortunate ones aro sheltered behind loss and timber. There has boon great destruction amongst live Jack, and the stench from tho carcTJP tlio animals lying in all directions is'terrible. The Botanical gardens aro a complete wreck, A number of women wore rescued scantily clothed, and carried to the high ground, whero they camped under the verandahs, The wailing of women and children and the cries of distressed animals could be heard over the noiso caused by the roaring of tbo river. The steamer Bella broke away from her moorings, and after she had rounded Kangaroo point a crash was hoard, and it is feared tho vessel sank wit'ther crow of four bands. • v ■'• mar within an hour, being sbivored to pieces as they collided with the Victoria Bridge, Many statements havo been mado that human beings were washed down tho river clinging to wreckage; and if these are correct all must have perished, At Sandgate immense quantities of ikbrii, including portions of housos, is coming ashore, Two men named Keogh and Youn<? have been drowned and several others arc known to havo been lost, but their names are not obtainable, The damago in South Brisbane alone will reach hundreds of thousands ot pouiidß. A man and a woman were seen on the roof of a house which capsized at a bend in the river, and both wore drowned. Tho authorities have secured all the disinfectants in Brisbane, and gangs of men are employed removing the deposit of mud from the streets, Tho same tales of disaster come from the outside districts to southward of Eockhampton, The whole eastern portion of the colony is almost literally under water. Lato last night it was reported that 15 bodies had been found in Stanley strcot, South Brisbane,