Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — FURIOUS FLOODS. [ARTICLE]

FURIOUS FLOODS.

Too Much Itampnc'H in ArnUrnfla—Dum’r.gc, S 1 .’5,000,000. The Australian papers, which arrived* at San Francisco on the steamer Alameda, TTiitrsday, printed graphic details of l lie great lloiml al Brisbane and its suburbs last February. In the city of Brisbane and its suburbs the damage done by the floods is estimated at $15,000,000. There was a fall of sixty-seven Inches of rain in three days, and three steamer* were floated out of tlie river and landed liigh and dry in tlie tintauicsl gardens. The towns of Bundamit, Ipswich and Gorina were all under wafer, and the people had to flee to tiic bills. Seven mon were drowned in a mine at Ipswich, four at them members <<f one Tho seven men went to work as usual in tlie morning. Tho, floods broke in. and within a short space .7of time the place .was flooded to witfiin thirty inches of the surface. The miners were caught like rats in a trap, and had not even a lighting chance for their lives. -———___ _