Destructive Storm
FEW anticipated that the steady rain which set in, and continued throughout Saturday, would have culminated in such a severe gale as swept the North Coast during Saturday…
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Floods & storms, 1893
125 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 7
Storm on the Richmond. Effects of the Hurricane. Maize, Young [?] and Fr[?] Trees Destroyed
OUR Richmond River correspondent writes: Few people in the Richmond district would have felt, mag[?]animons enough on Saturday night last to have exclaimed with poor mad…
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BRISBANE, MONDAY. — Unprecedented floods prevail in Queensland. Brisbane is cut off from telegraph communication. Ipswich is under water, and four children…
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IT now appears that the almost continous rainfall on the Clarence is really no extension of the tropical rains that have been so heavy in Queensland during the past week; and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[ESTABLISHED 1859.] the Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Saturday Morning, February 11Th, 18[?]3. The Queensland Floods
THIS intelligence from Queensland is of a most distressing character. No such disastrous and devastating flood has ever previously occurred in Australia. Indeed, for…
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THE recent flood, though not rising to any great height in the river, has done hundred's of pounds worth of damage, much of which might be prevented if precautionary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Floods in Queensland. Immense Destruction of Property. 67 Inches of Rain in 3 Days
Up to Tuesday morning 43 lives were reported to be lost, and the townships of Bundamba and Goodna entirely submerged. So is the city of Maryborough, while a big…
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THE flood here has been a truly asful visitation. The waters are slowly leaving the town. The extent and appearance of the floodwater would never be conceived by…
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A VISIT, to the town-hall showed that some change had been made in the arrangements for shelter for the flooded-out. The groups of women and children that earlier in the day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in Queensland Heartrending Details. Particulars of Business Losses. Toowong and St. Lucia.—Sad News from Ipswich Particulars from Gympie and Maryborough. Reports from Rockhampton
WE are indebted to the Rev. W. Page and Mr. W. Davies, for copies of the Brisbane Courier and Observer, from which we extract the following:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[ESTABLISHED 1859.] the Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Wednesday, 11 a.m., February 15. the Flood
ONLY a few days since the fannere of this district and the community dependent so completely upon the agricultural industry were congratulating themselves upon the…
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"HE who is qualified for government in human affairs must have a wisdom that enables him to look forward to the future and a learning that looks…
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THE river, which had not got back to its usual [?], being still up about five feet commended to rise again about 4 a.m. on Saturday, and for a th[?]e it [?]ose at a rate of…
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BRISBANE, Monday, 10.20 a.m.—The Brisbane River on Friday receded to its normal level, but is now again in high flood, the water beeing within 8[?] of the flood of 1890, but is still…
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THE cane-growers on the Clarence have not suffered to nearly the same extent as the maize-growers; for, though some patches in very low places will be lost, the crop, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood. Further Destruction of Property 18 inches less Water than in 1890 at South Grafton. And from 16 inches to about 2 feet on the North Side
THE Clarence has been visited by another heavy and disastrous flood, which, so far as the maize crops are concerned, may be said to have completed the destruction partially…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[ESTABLISHED 1859.] the Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tuesday Morning, February 21St 1893. The Clarence in Flood. How Shall the District best Overcome its Troubles?
UP to 1800 a theory had somehow become current that the Clarence was liable to high floods at intervals of ten years or thereabouts. The great flood of that year, however,…
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FERNMOUNT, MONDAY.—5[?] inches of rain fell at Fernmount in 24 hours from 9 a.m. on Friday. The river rose very suddenly on Saturday morning to 13…
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CASINO, SATURDAY, 9.30 a.m.—The river here has risen 40 feet, and is now falling. At Irvington the river is up 65 feet, or one foot higher than the 1887 flood. The weather is…
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SYDNEY, MONDAY.—There has been another flood in the Bogan (Queensland) on Friday. The river at Brisbane was rising at the rate of 8 inches to 12 inches an hour…
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