-
the 31st wherever the sewer trafes got choked with sand and the legitimate chan- nel of escape deburred, the water overflowed in- andating the streets a
And
making deep ruts in such
a
wary
to lay bare
gas and water pipes.
In some streets the sewers
burst
from
the pressure
of water in theño; in Centre
Street where this occurred.
a
chasm, & feet deep was
left along the middle of
the sheet.
Most of the Island.
telegraph lines
-jured;
twire
in
some posts bring
blown down and the
wires severed.
The
roads out of
Victoria
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"Victoria have suffered severely
from landslips, especially the new Road lately opened from Shet ́s to cope D'aquilar Light house, and which from
the steepness of the hill slopes
on which it is built has been
in places nearly obliterated.
The Cemeteries at Happy Falley have expecially suf-
- fered, monuments and)
head stones were knocked.
down, trees and shrubs.
up.
- pooled and both turfing and paths destroyed by-
the
enormous.
place.
volume of
you the
water which swept.
The Praya wall has suffered very slighttig in.
dud
owing
to the direction.
of the gale and to the
absence.