Severe Storms. Six Lives Lost
The Christmas holidays will long be remembered by residents of several towns in New South Wales. A hail and rain storm, which swept…
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Floods & storms, 1917
65 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 4
Queensland Floods. Town Partially Washed Away. Fifty Dead Bodies Recovered. Sydney
Fearful floods have occurred in Queensland. The township of Clermont has been partially destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Floods in Queensland. Installing the Tote. Sydney
Disastrous floods have occurred in Queensland. Three parts of the main street in Clermont have been washed away, and houses in low-lying parts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrific Storm. Thousands of Pounds Worth of Damage To Crops, Fenoing and Roads
With consistent regularity Cowra and district have been visited by heavy storms on Xmas eve for many years past, and unhappily Xmas 1916 was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Wires. Big Floods in Queensland Many Lives Lost Tuesday Morning
Disastrous floods have occurred in Queensland. Three-quarters of the street at Clermont was washed away…
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The floods along the Central Railway in Queensland are abating, except along the Dawson Valley. The Fitzroy river is rising…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Queensland Floods Floods in Queensland. Sydney
Great floods are reported in Queensland. The town of Clermont has been partly destroyed, and the railway line was washed away, with great loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Latest Telegrams. Floods in New Zealand. Sydney
Rivers in the Hawkes way district, New Zealand, are in n flooded state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Queensland Fatalities at Ouermont. Sydney
The latest reports regarding the disastrous flood at Clermont, reported in our wires of Tuesday last, state that the bodies of 61 persons' have so far…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Storm. Sailors Washed Overboard
In the course of a chat Private North informed us that they had an exciting experience a few days after leaving the port of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Floods. Great Damage Done. Sydney
The damage by floods at Clermont is estimated at between £250,000 and £300,000. The ruined buildings in the town number over 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Deluge Tablet
It is reported from the Smithsonian Museum that there has been found among the museum's large store of uncollated Mesopotamian texts a small tablet containing an account of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Warnings for Herders of Sheep
During the past spring the Weather Bureau established a special storm-warning service for the sheep ranges in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, to enable the owners of some 2,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harvesting Failures. Wheat From Flood Crops
The crops on Mr T. R. Jones' "Birdwood" property, on the Marsden-road, reminded us of a tangled mass of fishing lines. The stalks…
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Sharp showers of rain occurred on Saturday night, 43 points being registered at the local Post Office. On Monday, however, several very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Near Young. Great Damage. (By 'phone from Young "Witness.") Young
On Sunday a destructive cyclone occurred at Millvale. Great banks of black clouds coming up suddenly made it evident to the residents that a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More 'Floods in Queensland. Torrential Rains Continue. Sydney
Torrential rains still continue in Western Queenslanad, The entire country is submerged. The Warrego is in high flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Dams Burst. Collarenabri Flooded. Sydney
Two large dams broke away in the river at Collarenabri yesterday, flooding the lower lands. There was no damage to stock or property, but…
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A serious flood occurred at Wellington, Now Zealand. The bridge over the Thames broke away and choked the channel, causing the water to flow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central Queensland Near Ihe Big Floods. Letter from Ex-Wyalong Resident
Mr. J. A. Brown, for many years of "Speedwell," West Wyalong, and now of Capella, Central Queens land, writes us the following…
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