FAMILY RESCUED FROM GALEWRECKED HOME
BRISBANE, Mar. 5. The police have rescued a family which has been sheltering for two days under a house wrecked by a cyclone in Rockhampton. The family, comprising a pensioner, his wife and two invalid children, had been isolated by floodwaters and without food since the house collapsed on them on Wednesday. The floodwaters yesterday drowned a dairy farmer bringing the deathroll of the cyclone to five. The body of the farmer, Mr. George Coulson, was found on a fence 100 yards from his home at Jambin at the Biloela district of central Queensland.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 5
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