CYCLONE AND FLOODS
DAMAGE IN NORTHERN QUEENSLAND WHOLE TOWN EVACUATED TEN FEET OF WATER IN MAIN STREET. Uy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) BRISBANE. This Day. Serious interruptions to telegraphic, telephonic and railway communications have been caused in Northern Queensland by a cyclone. Two large railway bridges were washed away. Because of record flooding on the Burdekin River, all the people in the town of Homehill, which has a population of 2215. have been evacuated. The water reached a depth of 10 feet in the main street of Homehill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 5
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