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[pi-'R PRESS ASSOCIATION.- -COPYRIGHT.] GRAVE FLOOD DISASTER. Received, this day at 8.45 s».m. BRISBANE, Jan. 26. There are no further details nbou the Mackay disaster available. It .is believed that the township o Marlborough is practically wiped out. A GRAVE DISASTER. MACKAY IN RUINS. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) BRISBANE, Jan. 28. The latest news from Mackay state; the town i. s in ruins. There is no ga: or water supply, and the town is undei police control. Heavy rain is still falling. The master of the steamer Arawatr reports he remained in the. vicinity, hut saw no sign of the town only a vast sheet of water. Tt is feared a calamity i.s of enormous magnitude has befallen Mackay with appalling loss of life.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1918, Page 3
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127AUSTRALIAN Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1918, Page 3
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