Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-06 | Page 5 | Floods Destroy in Australia

flOODS DESTROY IN AUSTRALiA AUSTRALI Six Lose Lives in Inundated ed Area SYDNEY N. N S. S W. W Aug 2 By Mall The Thc The northwest part of or the state of or New South Val Wales s and tho the I southern portion of ot Queensland have J again been Inundated b by torrential I j rains over the watershed of the tho tho Darling river Its tributaries in I northern New South Wales overflowed overflowed overflowed over over- flowed th their lr banks in a sIngle night and it Is believed that tho the floods will wm extend Prom from to Bourke miles mUes across tho the flat fiat count country This Is a a. rich grazing re region lon Hundreds of or persons fled l d to high highlands highlands I lands with their stock but on tho tho Richmond river alone six persons lost 1 their lives JIves and dama damage o to farms along Ithe I I the Tweed river reached I I The towns of or and 1 Ii I were inundated as were I many smaller towns Airplanes are arc being used to maintain main main- lain tain communications communications' and the maln I mails mans are heln being carried regularly I Recently thousands of ot sheep were saved sRed from starvation by an aviator who dropped maize on a ridge several miles mUes from where tho the sheep were vero ma marooned I