QUEENSLAND FLOODS.
WIDE AREA INUNDATED. (Uoitad Praia Association—By Eleetrle Telegraph—Copyright.) BRISBANE, February 27. Floods have made their reappearance in Queensland. Torrential rain fell in the Mulgrave River district, and the river is 8 feet over the railway bridge. The Herbert River is rising at the rate of two feet an hour, and is now 30 feet above normal, and many feet over the railway bridges. If it rises another few feet the country between the Mulgrave and Herbert Rivers will be inundated. The Tully River is also 8 feet over the railway lines. Traffic has been suspended between Townsville and Cairns. No Brisbane mail has reached Cairns
for a week. One death is reported. An elderly man, attempting to cross a flooded creek near Marecba, was swept away and drowned.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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130QUEENSLAND FLOODS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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