QUEENSLAND FLOOD
TWENTY INCHES OF RAIN Itf'ONK DAY. THREE DEATHs"*bV DROWNING. By Telegraph.— Prees AssooiaUon,— Copyrlghk BRISBANE, Sth February. Innisfail leports state that twenty inches of rain fell in twentytfour hour*. There were heartrending scenes in th» flood. Many families were rescued from housetops. Sixteen took refuge on the roof of one house. A man hamed Keith 'Smith wai drowned, and also a Chinaman and a black jin. Tt is believed that other Chinese also perished. Thirty-two inches of vnin fell at Kuranda in fovty-eight hours. A landslip, deposited fteven thousand cubic yards of spoil on the Herberton Range 'railway. ■ CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. (Received February 6, 9.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. There have been unprecedented floocU at Mareeba, a mining centre in Caivhß. bix feet higher than any previously recorded. The rivet' broke Us banks and covered the country fov half-a-milc, houses hotng inundated, The pumping station at tho State Works was wrecked and tho Oourthouw at Biboohra flooded,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 7
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159QUEENSLAND FLOOD Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 7
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