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RESCUES FROM HOUSES.

Incidents at Port Melbourne.

The low-lying area aeast of the Port Mel-  

bourne Town Hall, and extending from   Bridge street to Inglis street, was early

EARLY MORNING SCENE AT MONTAGUE STREET, MONTAGUE.

yesterday morning a vast expanse of water.     That area is bisected by Spring Street, and in parts of that thoroughfare the water was lu, hia-h .as the lop ni the len es ni Inml of the houau-s l*'ion 1 en« in the si ni« pur tton of l'u« limit the limul »».i« -'It ilt op in mole Iban lim hnm-i-i. Tin. is ,1 ,"..! etrlitsni'l» a resiiliuti.il ai.'t. It t« iln.il» euveted »nth «nrkinon'i inlt.i^o, lu in» ¡of the hnfii-s intmli-tl b» Ihf -. »»inn.

the dam ige to fiiiinttu.- hu» !".»u , t

I able. No household in l'u .iiUix tv-, I laren c» i\ ed nilhout mall 1 ntl I., s o' , I kim! or .iiiiitht'i.

Storm water that falls in Port Melbourne   and on the south-western slopes of Eme-

AFTER THE STORM: SCENE OF WRECKAGE IN ALFRED STREET, FOOTSCRAY. THE WATER ROSE TO THE SPOT ON THE WALL MARKED

BY THE CROSS-A HEIGHT OF 5ft. 6in. FROM THE GROUND.

rald Hill, South Melbourne, finds its way   by Channels .util thoms into a nell in dm pumping s'liluni mi die io. IhuiioiI "lavium" |-esor»o (hil ol' thal well, lu p.iiis'iinl cn« ili'iu'li (»iniiiis, tim «.n,, i" t I.l ni» ii min lim sen, 'I Im heu».»' ilownpinii na», lum« ni, bovoiid dm i,ipni u> ni dm pumps

lloltiii' 'J n'lhii'l. in die iin.imin: Mi «sis M. .M.<l)i>m»ik-h (imi.ik1.ci .»! iii.. i,,nn hu 111, P. Miuilion, uml Hen .Iruuuiir., nml one nr two nllmi luidcuis weie timmi'i.i wotiloii und chiliboii fllllll llliud.'d hnll-i .? In (he Inivii hull. »! Ills li Hi.nutt li muuil» lol» li. II. (lill! had lim.i\ii open fm timm ni't'OIUItliidlttlailt, Til.» lilli) "I IH-1-i..ill.lllv superviso,! I ho prmisum ol' »»iitin lonil omi beds, I lelo nvor sill muñen nml dukin ii wore hhcltfii-il.

The lu.uses in I.flint' »licit, lim ibu roiighfuie al lim leal ni tim pnal'iithi'c, »vero

also imadoil by the flood from the cottages in Lalor street most of the «omen anti ' lukin n »ire lemovisl iii t inn 'com inandcerul bv Mi !! TI *iiott «ho led a parti of rescuers Trutlgm*; through «atei

mm sltcels up to their nimptls »i\ or yen poltet mi n joined »lth tinluiiH in irntni petiple out of the hourn» on to iii.oii» At tin Pin Si itiiui Stat on Olliiu Wind and Druor M Middm pro

idul beds foi a nuntin.i of finnlics from Labu strut

ilu mu»tu of Pott Melbouino (( outicil

li r I' II (lilli lins r coned is i di nation foi tin relief of inlTirors in Hu town by flooding J.IO fruin Mi Mathms MUK

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