ABNORMAL RAIN-
SEVERAL PEOPLE DROWNED
HUGE LANDSLIDE
(Received February sth, 10.40 p.m.) BRISBANE, February 5.
Innisfail reports that twenty inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours. Heartrending scones were witnessed. Families ivere rescued from housetops. Sixteen people took refuse on ono house. A man named Keith Smith was drowned, also a Chinaman and a black gin. It is believed that other Chinese perished.
Thirty-two inches of rain fell at Kuranda in forty-eight hours.
A' landslip brought doivn 7000 yards of spoil on tho Horberton Range railway.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14583, 6 February 1913, Page 7
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