QUEENSLAND CYCLONE
RIVERS IN HEAVY FLOOD POLICE RESCUE HUNDREDS ' (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) BRISBANE, Feb. 12. Communication with the cyclonestricken area in North Queensland is still interrupted. Messages received from the Commissioner of Police state that hundreds of people were rescued by the police in the inundated areas. The Tully river at Townsville is six miles wide. Heavy rains were still falling when the message was despatched. The Burdekin river is the highest on record. At Ingham, the water is 6 feet deep in the shops.
' The wind when it struck Cairns had a velocity of a hundred miles an hour. It shook the most substantial buildings, and at frequent irftervals, crashing of falling trees, telegraph poles and’flying iron could be heard. By midnight, the storm had reached its greatest intensity. Wind and rain swept the city with terrific force converting the streets into lakes. In addition to other damage, the Customs House was almost totally wrecked.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1927, Page 7
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