HEAVY FLOODS
! CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Eleo« trio Telegraph—Copyright.
IN CENTRAL QUEENSLAND.
MAN AND BOY DROWNED
(Received February 7, 9.10 a.m.)
BRISBANE, February 7. The floods in Central Queensland continue to increase. At Bundaberg, on the Burnett river, the water has risen to the roofs of the wharf sheds. The Dawson, one of the head waters of the Fitzroy river, is 42 feet high, while the Fitzroy at Rockhampton is still rising at the rate of two inches an hour. Railway communication with Stockall is cut off ', the creek waters being 22 feet over the rails. Tinknell, a mailman, and Lowe, a boy, were crossing a" flooded creek near Cawndah, when the buggy they were in capsized, and both were drowned. 1 MELBOURNE, February 7. Two and a half inches of rain fell at Pr.ahran in twenty-five minutes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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139HEAVY FLOODS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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