FLOODS RECEDING
RELIEF FUND SET UP ADELAIDE, August 17. The flood waters at Port Pirie are receding but the greater part of Ellendale is still submerged. The bodies of the two babies drowned yesterd&v have been recovered. One of the most pathetic features of the tragedy has been the wholesale destruction of cats, dogs and other domestic creatures, which are to be seen lying dead in all directions. . The Mayor has opened a re net fund, to which the Government has given £IOOO and a Port Pirie firm \: 2000. SETTLER DROWNED ATTEMPT TO CROSS RIVER j SYDNEY, August 17. | The peak of the flood in Murrumbidgee was passed last night, and the waters are now subsiding. William Murphy, 65, a settler, was drowned in attempting to swim the swollen Tuross river, near Bodalla, a fortnight ago. Nothing was . known of the tragedy until his starving dog and cat walked through the scrub to a miner's camp, more than two miles from Murphy's farm.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21246, 18 August 1934, Page 15
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