MAROONED
PASSENGERS IN QUEENSLAND
ATTEMPTS AT RELIEF
TITREE DROWNED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 31st Januarv. 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day.
-.ie first attempt to give relief to the stranded railway passengers near Burdekin river ended disastrously when a motor boat carrying twelve passengers and five of a crew capsized, throwing the occupants into the swirling waters. Despite heroic rescue attempts by the occupants of a nearby boat three were •washed away and drowned. Practically all the luggage was lost. Because of the risk attending the operations, the ferrying of passengers was suspended. At Julia eighty-four passengers were stranded in carriages, where they had been living for a fortnight. With the arrival of two divisions of the Townsville express seven hundred passengers will be marooned on the southern side of Burdekin and two hundred on the Townsville side.
Fifteen spans of the Cloncurry river bridge have* been thrown out of alignment, and parts of the structure have disappeared altogether.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 January 1930, Page 5
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