FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND
RIVER BREAKS ITS BANKS SOME FARMS UNDER THIRTY FEET OF WATER Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, January 19. (Received January 19, at 10.5 a.m.) Twenty inches oi rain was registered at Babinda in forty-eight hours, the cause being a cyclone over the eastern side of tho Gulf of Carpentaria. The St. Johnstone river, which is in high flood, broke its banks, flooding the countryside. Some sugar farms are thirty feet under water. A number of houses are also submerged and the business sections are threatened. The river rose ton feet in five hours. All traffic in the district is suspended. Many people loft their homes rather than spend tho night in terror.
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Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7
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114FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7
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