FLOODS IN WESTRALIA.
TRAIN DERAILED AND HORSE- . MAN DROWNED.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This, Day, 10 a.m.) PERTH, Tuesday. Following very heavy rains parts of ithe East Kimberley, Gascoyne and Murchison districts are flooded. Numerous wash aw ays have occurred. A train was derailed near Meekatliara where the water ran four feet ever the line. The engine sank into the mud until the water entered tie dire - boxes. Traffic is disorganised. A man was drowned in attempting :to cross a flooded creek.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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