A QUEENSLAND FLOOD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5

A QUEENSLAND FLOOD.

SEVERAL DEATHS. . PHENOMENAL RAINFALL. Brisbane, February 5. Innisfail reports twenty inches of rain in twenty-four hours. There were heartrending scenes as families were rescued from housetops. Sixteen took refuge in one house. Keith Smith was drowned, also a Chinaman and a black gin, and it is believed that other Chinese perished. Thirty-two inches of rain fell at Kuranda in forty-eight hours. A landslip of seven thousand yards occurred on the Herberton Range on the railway. THE MAREEBA BROKE ITS BANKS. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Brisbane, February o. There are unprecedented floods cn the Mareeba, which is six feet higher than ever previously recorded. The river broke its banks and covered half a mile of country with houses: it swept the pumping station at the State works, and wrecked the Courthouse at Biboohra, which was flooded.