FLOOD SURVIVORS.
THRILLING TALES
REFUGE TAKEN IN TREES
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEG R A PI I—COP YRIGH T.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 11.35 a.m. to-day.
ROCKHAMPTON, April 30. Survivors’ stories, which mention miraculous escapes during the floods, make thrilling reading. Two Greeks in the. cotton area- were so desperate, fearing drowning or starvation, that they arranged to shoot themselves, when they were swept into a tree and marooned there till the waters subsided. A settler’s baby was caught on a barbed wire fence and held there till it was saved. A family • named Rail at Wowan took refuge in trees. The death 'Ties of stock, poultry, and domestic animals were pitiable. Thousands of snakes of all sorts were drowned and cotton crops ruined.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 April 1928, Page 5
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124FLOOD SURVIVORS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 April 1928, Page 5
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