Two Sisters (5,6) Drown In Flood
BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Two sisters, aged five and six, were drowned when they tried to cross a flooded creek at Mount Gravatt, an outer South Brisbane…
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Floods & storms, 1954
549 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 28
Brisbane Storm
BRISBANE, Thurs.--Torrential rain gave Brisbane its worst, drenching for a year to-night, and flooded…
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BRISBANE. Thursday.-- Flood rains have stopped nearly all inter-city road movements in the southern…
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BRISBANE, Thurs. -- A Queensland woman swam creeks and walked for miles before her baby was born…
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SYDNEY, Sun. -- The Weather Bureau forecast heavy rain and thunder for Canberra to-morrow…
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BRISBANE, Sun.--Two stockmen were swept from their horses and drowned while trying to…
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BRISBANE, Monday. -- Three near-exhausted women were rescued from a partially submerged tree near Duaringa, 461 miles north of Brisbane to-day after a 36-hour ordeal in flood waters…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday. --The State government will approach the Commonwealth Government for the use of R.A.A.F. planes to drop food and medical supplies…
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BRISBANE, Thurs. -- A cyclone of extreme intensity is to-night bearing down on the flooded central…
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BRISBANE, Fri --A "miracle" wind to-day saved flood stricken Rockhampton and other Queensland…
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SOUTHGATE.--The trustees of the Southgate Flood Boat have the new boatshed project well in hand, and…
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The Eastern half of New South Wales is being lashed by one of the most disastrous cyclones in Australia's history. In its wake lies a trail of death and destruction. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the cyclone was centred…
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Looking along Fitzroy street towards Granger's corner and the Commercial Bank of Sydney, in 1950's previous record flood. The bottom photograph shows the peak height on Sunday. The water is flowing into Prince street at the Crown Hotel end. Plane trees in front of the…
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A Yamba correspondent said last night that there was plenty of water lying around the district, which…
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Facing a flood of even more devastating force than the destructive inundation of 1950, many thousands of Clarence River district residents last night were preparing for a virtual…
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Hundreds of Grafton and South Grafton families were accommodated in church halls, schools and private homes when they were forced out of homes by…
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Hockey's Sports Store, now demolished, in the Grafton all-time record flood on Thursday, March 13, 1890. Flood level was 26 feet 2 inches…
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Torrential rains and cyclonic winds severed rail communication between Kempsey and Brisbane from about midday on Saturday…
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A carnival atmosphere prevailed in Grafton last light. While hundreds of…
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Mr. E. V. L. Wright, of Lawrence, said yesterday that Saturday's gale was the worst he had…
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