COTTON-PICKERS SAFE
REPORTED SWEPT AWAY QUEENSLAND FLOODS (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 10 a.m. BRISBANE, To-day. The seven cotton-pickers who were believed to have been swept to death in the floods are safe. The earlier report said:—Seven cotton-pickers who were working on a farm at Bundalba were overwhelmed by a huge volume of water which swept over their camp. They have not been seen since, and it is feared they were drowned. The bodies df Elsie Williams, Doris Williams and A. Williams, who were swept away with Mr. Muldoon’s farmhouse at Golbera, have been recovered. The death roll in the flooded areas of Queensland has now been increased to nine. Ten other people are missing. As communications are restored it is feared many more deaths will be reported. Survivors from the Dawson Valley have reached Mount Morgan. They say the whole of the cotton fields have been ruined.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 9
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