People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Lives Lost In Gales and Floods. [ARTICLE]

Lives Lost In Gales and Floods.

London, March 3. —A special dispatch from Brisbane says that gales and floods have caused a great deal of damage in and about the seaport of Townsville, in the northeast part of Queensland. Seventeen vessels in that harbor have foundered, and one of them went down with its passengers and crew. Houses on shore were razed to the ground. The loss by the foundering of four passenger steamers is estimated to be $2,500,000.