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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms
295 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 15
Latest reports about the Queensland floods meal appalling scenes of desolation. Only 25 Louses remain in Sooth Brisbane, the whole of the main street being one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane telegrams give fuller details of the floods. The water reached 12ft. higher than in the great flood of 1890, and the losses are estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judged by recent developments, the residents in Queensland must be in some considerable doubt as to whether it would be better to live in a cellar or on the lop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the flood at Maryborough a baby 10 months old was found floating in the river lashed to a raft, A man named Hogan, who was carried six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the saddest calamities in connection with the flood ia the drowsing case of the Jackson family, which occurred at Black wall: The Toowoomba Chronicle gives the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There have been heavy gales in the Atlantic. Twelve persons were washed overboard from the Allan Liner Booneranian, including the captain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flood waters at Brisbane have now subsided, but the wreck and ruin is only the more manifest. The devastation is widespread, and hardly a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Brisbane telegram reports that the Gympie River is again rising at the rate of eight, inches per hour. Some of the low-lying portions of teh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods are also reported from the Clarence sod Richmond River Districts. Grafton and Lismore are inundated, and all the creeks are overflowing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held in the Town Hall last night and was largely attended, the principal speakers being Lord Jersey, the Mayor, the Premier and Mr. McMillan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government of Queensland have served out £1000 worth of tea, sugar, bread, and blankets, to the sufferers by the Brisbane flood, and offers of help…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The floods at Brisbane are not all over yet, for again has terribly heavy rain fallen, and the river is again rising, and rising fast. Through this another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Damoclesian sword of "big| floods" does not hang only over Queensland. In the north of New South Wales it also has fallen and with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous floods have occurred in the Transvaal Republic, and mines have boon inundated, houses demolished, and the railway lines wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All the northern rivers in the colony are flooded. At Gra[?]on the back waters reached their highest point yesterday, and nearly, all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Again has the Brisbane risen to Hood level, and the lower parts of the Capital are inundated. The mails to Sydney are again blocked by the water rising 2½ft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REPORTS are to hand of great devastation in Brisbane. About 500 houses have been washed away and there has been enormous destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Richmond Hoods are subsiding, but immense danger has been done to property. A large number of cattle have been swept away, and almost all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The whole of tho district surrounding Maitland is in flood, and East Maitland fears tho worst she has suffered. Torrents of rain have fallen, and nothing,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the close of the Benevolent Asylum meeting last night reference wm made to the floods in Queensland. Mr. Paul said that, as the evening was still…
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