FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.
MINING DAMS SWEPT AWAY. GREAT DESTRUCTION. iy Telegraph. — Press Associatlon.-Copyrlght. BRISBANE, 21st March. Tho Fitzroy lliver, at Rookhamptoh, is in high flood. " Sixteen inches of rain have fallen during the present month, and the low-lying parts of the town are irundated. Residents are removing. Tho wharves are covered with much dnmaged goods. Thp floods caused great destruction in the surrounding districts. Several mining dams have been swept away and the train service disorganised. There are washawayb a mile wide in the River Warrefio at Augathella, 489 miles west north-west from Brisbane. The river is still rising, and the township is largely under water. At Mackay, over a hundred inches of rain have fallen since the beginning of the year. THREE MEN IN A PERILOUS POSITION. CLINGING TO TREE-TOPS. MAN DROWNED. (ReceiTed March 22, 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, this Day. Numbers ot persons are being rescued by boats at Charleville. Three men attempted to m-oss the river in a boat, but lost the boat, and are now clinging to the tree-tops. They am in a perilous position. A man named Nunu was drowned at Bajodl.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1910, Page 7
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186FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1910, Page 7
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