STORM AND FLOOD
QUEENSLAND'S PLIGHT
WATER OVER RAILWAYS
(Eeceived 7th January, noon.)
BEISBANE, This Day.
The Weather Bureau reports that the cyclone is declining in intensity, but that serious .flooding is likely in tho Herbert, Fully, and Johnston Eivers following torrential rains. Many places recorded over ten inches for forty-eight hours, Mossman- registering twelve and a half inches.
Buffeted for twenty-four hours by the cyclone, the steamer Morinda reached Cairns only nine ' hours late. The wind reached a velocity of eightyfive miles an hour, and cabins and saloons were flooded.
Fears aro entertained for the safety of a fishing party aboard a launch which left Cairns on Friday for Moore Eeef, where a lugger was wrecked on Saturday morning.
All low-lying places north of Cairns are flooded. The mail train reached Townsyillo through water a foot over tho rails in many places.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 9
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