FLOOD IX AUSTRALIA.
HUNDREDS KEXDERED IIOMELI'.SS. A FOUNDRY COLLAPSED. il.vnm DAMAGIW. TWO VESSELS WIIEOKKD. A TREMENDOUS RAINFALL. FLEJIINTxTOX RAOEGOURSE SUIJMKIKJKI). (UV ELKCTIIIC TKUClill.U'll -COI'VHUiIIT). Mkluouiink, ifuly 13. TiiKMBNDOi's rains hn»e failnn throughout tin; colony, and considerable damago in ri) ported. The water ro-si; lapidly lit Tonrak :md South Yarra, and in mum". in<tiinci_;s families, had to bu roocueii froui their lioiwen in boats. Over one hundred and fifty families hiivn lieou rendered lioniele.-s at liicliinond, ami .-ixty perriotid wero driven from their residences at Toorak. Fleinington racecoiir-iO in under water, and an extensive portion of tho Adelaide railway line has been w.nbed away, Tho McCulloiirli foundry in the city was undermined by flood water, and tin; building collapsed. The damage in estimated at £5000.
Four and a-half inches of rain fell in the city siinco one o'clock »n Saturday morning. A heavy sea is running along the const. The schooner Narra was wrecked at Sorrento, and Captain Lancaster and a sailor named Robertson were drowned. Tho schooner Unity was driven ashore •near Schanak, but tho crew reached the land in safety.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2964, 14 July 1891, Page 2
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181FLOOD IX AUSTRALIA. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2964, 14 July 1891, Page 2
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