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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1917

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The Caucasian Campaign. Bulgar Defence Broken. Fearful Snow Storms. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

A wireless Russian official message states: After artillerying we attacked the Batach Height, through a stubborn defence. We repulsed six persistent…

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Irish Sea Disaster. 90 Lives Lost by Collision in Fierce Storm. Sole Survivor's Story

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 7

During the height of the gale in the Irish Sea on Friday night, November 3, the London and North-western Railway Company's steamer Connemara collided…

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Queensland Floods. Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 2

The Dawson, Fitzroy. Flinders and Haughton Rivers are still rising. The latter is eight feet over the railway bridge at…

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Fitzroy River in Flood

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

The portmaster at Brisbane, Captain Forrester, has received a telegram from the harbour-master at Rockhampton, stating the Fitzroy. River is in heavy flood. All the…

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Havoc Wrought by the Flood

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

The Minister for Education arrived at Capella and went on to Clermont by trolly. Altogether, about 24 persons went through on trollies. At Little Ebor considerable…

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Queensland Floods. Other Towns in Danger

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

Very heavy rain feil at Clermont on Thursday afternoon and night. It is possible that five bodies not yet identified are really bodies of persons who have…

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Floods in Queensland. Disaster at Clermont. Fifty People Drowned. Houses Washed Away

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 6

The cyclonic weather which has been raging in Northern and Central Queensland or some time past has been responsible for dreadful disaster…

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Flood in Tasmania. Heavy Damage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 7

A Hobart message states that Saturday's Hoods, following on Friday's cloud-burst, caused great damage to property and the railway lines at Bridgewater, along the…

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Queensland Floods. Clermont Isolated. Heartrending Scenes. More Floods Feared. Rockhampton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

The floods on the Central Railway are abating, expect in the Dawson Valley, where the waters are rising and it is expected they will cause an interruption to traffic…

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The Queensland Floods Great Distress at Clermont. Immense Loss of Stock

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

Although the flood waters are subsiding at Clermont information about the loss of life and damage wrought is coming through slowly. Great distress…

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Queensland Floods. Mrs. Crawford's Remarkable Escape

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 8

Mrs. Crawford, wife of the former member for Mount Morgan, gives a thrilling account of hor remarkable escape from drowning in the Clermont flood…

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Queensland Floods. Damage at Clermont About £300,000. Many Pitiable Scenes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 4

Fortunately it was not given to many to see so many pitiable sights as were witnessed in Clermont on the morning of December 28, The State School, the Convent, and the…

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Queensland Floods. Further Drowning Cases

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 3

The Queensland Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Hughenden, reporting the drowning of five members of the Jenkinson family at…

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Queensland Floods. Remarkable Escape

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

Mrs. Crawford, wife of the former member for Mount Morgan, gives a thrilling accuont of her remarkable escape from…

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Queensland Deluge Further Serious Floods. (By Telegraph.) Brisbane

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 2

Serious floods have occurred at Dawson's Flat, Capella district. Saphiretown had about 20 inches of rain during the week of the cloud burst, and Rubyvale…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 11. (before Mr. C. H. Gale, P. M.). Drunkenness

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 7

A first offender, who was arrested in High-street last evening by Constable Best, was fined 2/6 for drunkenness. HOTEL SANITARY CONVENIENCES…

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Queensland Floods. Family's Thrilling Adventure. Refuge on House Tops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 4

With eighteen men and eleven drays inspector Wiseman is making rapid progress towards cleaning up the town of Clermont (Q.). The business places in…

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The Floods. Damage at Clermont About £300,000. Many Pitiable Scenes

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 January 1917 · page 3

Fortunately it was not given to many to see, so many pitiable sights as were witnessed in Clermont on the morning of December 28. The State School, the…

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Queensland Floods. Railway Services Restored

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 5

A telegram has been received by the Railway Department in Brisbane, from Mr. Pagan, Deputy Commissioner at Townsville, stating that the whole of the train services in…

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Queensland Floods. Mrs. Crawford's Remarkable Escape

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 5

Mrs. Crawford, wife of the former member for Mount Morgan, gives a thrilling account of her remarkable escape from drowning in the…

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