AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 172, 21 April 1928, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

LARGE AREAS UNDER WATER MAN DROWNED IN QUEENSLAND (Rec. April 20, 8 p.m.) Sydney, April 20. The Murwillumbah residential area has been invaded by the Tweed River, the waters of which rose alarmingly late yesterday. The countryside for miles around is a huge lake. People have discarded their ordinary dress and are going about in bathing suit's. Incessant rain at Richmond for four' days has swollen all the creeks and rivers. At Richmond and Lismore they are twelve feet above normal. It is still raining and many roads are blocked. Brisbane, April 20. All the low-lying parts of Brisbane are now under water and floods are experienced in all creeks and rivers of the Darling Downs. At Warwick, Horace Barnett, while attempting to cross a creek, was swept away and drowned. All creeks in the Maleny district are in high flood, and fears are entertained for the safety of the main traffic bridge in the Cooroy district. A heavy landslide in the Esk district near Moore has blocked the railway line, and the creeks and the Esk are carrying a greater volume of water than in 1893. Floods in the Stanley River at Royston are 18ft. over the railway bridge. The Brisbane River at Mummurba is 46ft. over the bridge and rising 2ft. hourly.