DISASTROUS FLOODS. UNPRECEDENTED BISE IN THE RIVER LOSS OF LIFE FEARFUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. INDOOROOPILLY RAILWIY BRIDGE WASHED AWAY SOENE ON THE RIVER. DREDGLS AND STEAMERS ADRIFT. THE WATER RECEDING.

6 February 1893, The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), page 2

…water flowed on the southern end of Victoria Bridge and almost touched the decking on the Queen-street side. The overflow of the river extended almost as far up as Edmonstone- street, half of Musgrave Park being apparently submerged. So far as the eye could reach along the bend of the river towards St. Lucia nothing was to be seen but the havoc wrought by the flood, and it could only be surmised that the residents on the St. Lucia Estate must be having a rather trying and anxious time, if they had not indeed sought refuge on the higher grounds in the vicinity. The gas- works were rendered useless, the water being nearly up to the top of the gasometers, and all the houses along Montague-road had suffered severely. Some of them were completely under water, whileh in other instances only the tops of the roofs could be seen. A conspicuous building was the West End Brewery. The water had risen up to the windows of the second story, and all the dwellings in its immediate neighbourhood were completely hidden by the waters or nearly so. To the s0uth, as far as Park Church, the flood was…