FLOODS AGAIN SWEEP IN QUEENSLAND STATE
RIVERS RISE HIGH AND ELDERLY MAN DROWNS IN CREEK (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copy rig Reed. 11 a.m. BRISBANE, To-day. Floods have made a reappearance in Queensland. Torrential rain fell in the Mulgrave River district, and the river is eight feet over the railway bridge. The Herbert River is rising at a rate of two feet an hour, and is now 30 feet above normal, and many feet over the railway bridges. If it rises another few feet, the country between the Mulgrave and Herbert Rivers will be inundated. The Tully River is also eight feet over the railway lines. Traffic has been suspended between Townsville and Cairns. No Brisbane mail has reached Cairns for a week. One death is reported. An elderly man who was attempting to cross a flooded creek near Mareeba was swept away and drowned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 599, 27 February 1929, Page 9
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143FLOODS AGAIN SWEEP IN QUEENSLAND STATE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 599, 27 February 1929, Page 9
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