THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS.
SOME TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. FIVK MEMBERS OF 'A FAMILY DROWNED. ESTIMATE OF DAMACI-: Brisbane, Jan. si. The latest estimate of the flood dama;.v iii tin- Clermont district is £300,000. fv.cr a hundred building qre ruined. The water continues to lise at Rockhampton, and a Hood is foiled. Received Jan. 0, 8.45 p.m. Brisbane, .Jim. '.l. -lfie flood at Hughenden has washed away the house of a selector named Jcnkinson, together with nine members of the family, who were clinging to the roof, when it struck a tree and capsized. Two sons and two daughters managed to eling to the tree, and were lescued after sixteen hours' exposure, but the live others—Jenkinson, senior, his wife. Jenkinson, junior, and his wife and child—were drowned; • A number of individual drownings contihue to be reported throughout the flooded areas. Many of those wht were marooned were rescued after sensational escape and severe sufferings, but some were almost demented. /
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1917, Page 5
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156THE QUEENSLAND FLOODS. Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1917, Page 5
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