DEATHS IN FLOODS.
QUEENSLAND TRAGEDIES. COTTON-PICKERS SWEPT AWAY. DAWSON VALLEY CROPS RUINED. (Received April 26, 10.21 p.m.) BRISBANE, April 26. The death roil in the flooded areas of Queensland has now been increased to nine. Ten other people are missing. As communications are restored it is feared many more deaths will be reported. Seven cotton-pickers who were working on a farm at Bundalba were overwhelmed by a huge volume of water which swept over their camp.- They have not been seen since, and it is feared they were drowned. The bodies of Elsie Williams, Doris Williams and A. Williams, who were swept away with Mr. Muldoon's farmhouse at Golbera, have been recovered.
Survivors from the Dawson Valley have reached Mount Morgan. They say the whole of the cotton fields have been ruined.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 12
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