RAGING TORRENT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 April 1928, Page 7

RAGING TORRENT

DEVASTATES A VALLEY. DISASTER AT MT. MORGAN. TORRENTIAL RAIN FALLS. I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECT!: ic XELEGRA PH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BRISBANE, April 24. Details of the floods in the Dawson Valley show a phenomenal fall of 4285 points of rain at Struck Oil, situated at the head of the Mount Morgan Jam, which caused a huge volume o. water to rush from the dam at Wura. Water -which resembled a vast sea, came down with terrific speed, leaving an enormous lane through the country. The damage done is incalculable. The Postmaster-General at Melbourne has received advices that as a result of the floods in Queensland, Capricorn, Sea Hill, Rann, Baralaba, Billoela, Thangool, Camboon and AVowan are entirely cut off from telegraphic communication. The police have recovered' the body of Laurence Aluldoon. It was fully clothed, indicating that the torrent must have caught the whole household unaware®. The police declared there, was not the slightest hope for the others, the nature of the country preventing escape from the flood. Supplies are arriving a.t Mount Morgan for flood sufferers. The lower portions.of Rockhampton and. suburbs are becoming .submerged. The rain is torrential in character, 25 inches falling in three days. Rescue parties in boats have up to Tuesday morning saved over 150 marooned people. The damage to property is enormous, mounting to over £20,000 at Mount Morgan alone.