THE MURRAY FLOODS
FAMILIES FORCED TO FLEE AREAS INUNDATED (Received 24th August,'lo a.m.) : ADELAIDE, This Day. 1 Mannum, 'on the Murray^ is in' the grip of flood. Over a hundred.families have been forced to abandon - their homes as the result-of the stop-bank giving way. ' The main street,is cov-. ered to a depth of several feet.'Settlers lower down the Murray are fleeing. : : The' districts in the neighbourhood of Murray Bridge- are -threatened by' an immense volume of water. About seven hundred acres were, inundated when the< banks of the Murray broke at' Glen Lossie. Four ' settlers, were flooded out at Ponde, while at Swan Reach the water rose to ten feet in the main street. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 7
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114THE MURRAY FLOODS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 7
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