FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.

Wairarapa Age, 16 February 1927, Page 5

FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.

MANY DEATHS. WATERS NOW RECEDING. BRISBANE, February 15. As communications with the floodstricken areas are restored, the deathroll continues to mount. It is now estimated that 39 lives were lost, besides many missing. A message from Ingham states thht nine bodies have been recovered there, but seven others have not been located. It is possible that others are missing also. The flood waters are now receding and the position is calmer. The residents of Ingham are well provided for and it is expected that within th-e next two days communication will be restored to Halifax, Macnade, and Lucinda. . It is understood that the residents in those centres are safe. Communication is now restored with Beamerside, Cardwell, Tully, and Innisfail. No loss of life occurred at any of these places, though Tull is short of .fpod and the people are rationed. Efforts are being made to rescue twenty people marooned at the store at Euramoa. Tlxp list of dead at Ingham includes: Albert Russo, Maria Russo, Lucia Russo, Annie Russo, Barmelo Russo, Domenico Sofia and Rusolia Sofia, Rosa Rogonese, a Japanese named Frank Batalia, Edgar and Stanley von Aplin—the latter superintendent of ambulance, drowned during rescue work at McMillan —Giovanni Luigi, Lily Cassidy, six kanakas and an aboriginal. It is expected that the death-roll will be largely increased.—(P.A.).

DANGER OVER. BUT BIG AREAS STILL SUBMERGED. BRISBANE, February 15. Although the flood waters are subsiding in most centres, enormous areas of banana and sugar cane crops are under water, but all danger is now passed. Word has been received that a party of eleven, including two women, are marooned on Green Island, near Cairns. A party of aboriginals brought the news and later rowed back to the island with provisions. The steamer Innisfail is. safe. It is impossible yet to estimate the damage. A late report from Cairns states that heavy rain is again falling and, it is feared, will inflict further damage and hardship in the Innisfail, Tullv, and adjacent districts.—(D.A.).

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