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SEVERAL PERSONS DROWNED. A LANDSLIP EXTENDING 7000 YARDS. (Received February 5, 10.40 p.m.) BRISBANE, February 5. Innisfail reports twenty inches of rain in twenty-four hours. There were heartrending scenes. Families were rescued from the housetops. Sixteen took refuge in one house. Two men named Keith and Smith were drowned, also a Chinaman named Black Gin, and it is believed that other Chinese perished. Thirty-two inches of rain fell at Kuranda in forty-eight hours. There is a landslip for seven thousand yards on the Herberton range railway.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 8
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88HEARTRENDING SCENES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 8
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