SWEPT TO DEATH
TRAGEDY CHECKS FLOOD RESCUERS THREE WASHED AWAY U -i ted i * . I . — By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.50 a.m. BRISBANE, Today. The first attemp:. to give relief to the stranded railway passengers near Burdekiu River ended disastrously, when a motor-boat carrying 12 passei»gers 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 persons were washed away and drowned. Practically all the luggage was lost. Because of the risk attending the operation, the ferrying of passengers has been suspended at Julia. Eighty-four passengers are stranded in carriages, where they have been living for a fortnight. With the arrival of the two divisions of tile Townsville express, 700 passengers will be marooned on the southern side of Burdekin and 200 on the Townsville side. Fifteen spans of the Cloncurry River bridge have been thrown out of alignment. and parts ol the structure havq disappeared altogether.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 885, 31 January 1930, Page 9
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