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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1918

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Queensland Flood the Mackay Disaster. Storm and Tidal Wave

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 January 1918 · page 2

The Port Master at Brisbane received a wireless message from Mackay telling of a disastrous tidal wave and cyclone [?]storm…

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Disastrous Storm in Victoria. Four Miles of Destruction. Boy Killed, Man Drowned

The Bombala Times · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.- To-cyctonic disturbance was most se­verely felt in the suburbs a^ong' the west side ot the bay. . At Brighton Beach the devas­tation was apallihg. The Ozone tea rooms were smashed like…

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