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English: The Queenslander

Sat 11 Feb 1893

Caboolture

Our Caboolture correspondent writes :- "The floods are now rapidly subsiding. The Caboolture Bridge is safe, though blocked with immense logs and tress, which are now being removed. The handrails are all gone, of course, otherwise there is no damage. There is no reliable news from Woodford, but we heard yesterday that King's store was submerged, and the water was high in the post and telegraph office. It is feared some lives have been lost on the Stanley River, and much damage done at Villeneuve.

On the Upper Caboolture no very great damage has been done, but on Wararba Creek the farmers have suffered very heavily, as they all had crops just ready to come off. The flood was certainly 5ft. higher than any previous flood in this district, and a great deal of damage has been done, though we have come off generally better than most places. I hear that Pine River Bridge is destroyed, and great damage is done to the farms on the South Pine and some on the Upper North Pine. To-day for the first time the weather is fine, though excessively hot and sultry. The roads of course have suffered throughout the district, and news from Brisbane is anxiously awaited, as we have had no mail since Friday morning, which was brought in on a trolly, the train being then unable to reach here owing to the floods on Morayfield Bridge. The line will probably be open to Gympie on Wednesday."