TRAINS MAROONED
HUNDREDS OF PASSENGERS HELD UP. THREE PERSONS DROWNED. ’ United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). {Received this day at 9.40 a.mA BRISBANE, Jan. 31. The first attempt to give relief to the stranded railway passengers near Burdekin river ended disastrously, when a motor boat carrying twelve passengers and. five of a crew capsized, throwing the occupants into the swirling waters. Despite heroic rescue attempts by the occupants of a nearby boat, three were washed away and drowned. Practically all the luggage was lost. Because of the risk attending operations, the ferrying, of passengers was suspended. At Julia, eighty-four passengers are stranded in carriages where they have been living for a fortnight.. With the arrival of two divisions of ‘.the Townsville express, seven hundred passengers will he marooned on the southern side of Burdekin and two hundred on the Townsville side. Fifteen spans of the Clonourry bridge have, been thrown out of alignment and parts of, the structure have disappeared , altogether.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1930, Page 5
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160TRAINS MAROONED Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1930, Page 5
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