FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.
. —: —-♦— . HEAVY LOSSES BY SETTLERS. By rclceriph—Press Association-CopyrlsTit Brisbane, February 18!, Details arc coming to hand concerning tho floods. They show heavy losses of ' property and stock.' '. ' , One man in tho Donaldson district'lost two thousand cattle. At Augustas 'a ' boy, in attempting to save horses, was drowned. A considerable area of 6ugar cane lias been badly damaged. ' Wido stretches of country lmvo been turned into n sen, and ninny settlers havo been compelled to leave trleir homes. Thcro is much suffering, supplies being cut off. DELUGE IN ILLINOIS. Chicago, February 17. The waters of tho Pecantonica Hirer are higher than for fifty years. ■ Hundreds of families have been driven from their homes. Frceport, a manufacturing town of 13,200 inhabitants, is flooded. ' Tho dnmap,e. is'already estimated at twenty-fire ihousnnd pounds. '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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131FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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