SURVIVORS TELL OF FLOOD PERILS.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES FROM DEATH RECOUNTED
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received April 30, 11.30 a.m.) ROCKHAMTON, April 30.
Survivors’ stories, which mention miraculous escapes during the floods, make thrilling reading. Two Greeks in the cotton area were so desperate, fearing drowning or starvation, that they had arranged ,to shoot themselves. Then they were swept into a tree and marooned there till the waters subsided.
A settler's baby was caught on a barbed wire fence and held there till saved. A family named Ball, at Wowan, took refuge in trees. The death cries of their stock, poultry and domestic animals were pitiable. Thousands of snakes of all sorts were drowned, and cotton crops were ruined.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18451, 30 April 1928, Page 5
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