A TRAGEDY OF THE FLOODS. THE STORY OF WILLIAM COOMBER.

8 February 1890, The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), page 272

…A Tragedy of the Floods Glastonbury Creek, via Gympie, Queensland. The following story was published in " The Queenslander " of Saturday 08 February 1890: "On the night of Monday, 13th January, the Glastonbury Creek, at Glastonbury hamlet, thirteen miles from Gympie , rose in sudden flood, sweeping away trees, crops, and houses, and, to deepen still further the melancholy tragedy, sacrificing a mother and her three children in its furious onset."  Here is the story of William Coomber, the widowed husband and the childless father, as told last week to a representative of the Courier .  Grizzled and browned by years of strenuous labour,…

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