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A CORRESPONDENT informs as that a terrible storm passed over King's Plains on Tuesday night, December 15th, It had been raining steadily all the morning, but towards evening the sky began to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE China mail, arrived at San Francisco, brings intelligence of terrible storms which occurred in China and off the Japanese coast. At Changchow the storm was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE condition of Brisbane is described as frightful. Over five hundred houses had been swept away, and the water was 33 feet deep in Stanley-street. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A RESIDENT of Brisbane during the past 44 years, writing on Tuesday last respecting the floods, says;—It is heartbreaking' to look from the house on any side, for, as far…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clarence River at Grafton rose rapidly yesterday and flooded a part of the town. The river is still rising slowly. Damage to the amount of hundreds of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Brisbane flood reached 12ft higher than the disastrous flood of 1890. [?]Brisbane alone the damage will probably amount to millions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE rain which has fallen incessantly, during the week just past, eastward of the great mountain [?]nge has poured into the sea chiefly through two [?]tlets, the Brisbane and Mary rivers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PURSUANT to a notice given by his Worship the Mayor a meeting was held at the old Town Hall on Wednesday evening to express deep sympathy and to raise a relief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE correspondent of the COURIER at Fernvale writes as follows:—"The water was probably 35 or 40 feet higher than in 1890. There have been twenty houses washed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF out of doors avoid trees and all elevated objects. If the flash is followed instantly by the report, a recumbent position is the safest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TORRENTS of water run along Campbellstreet with great fury, the destructive streams pouring through the premises in all directions. Enormous damage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE River rose 24 feet 10 inches and was almost the same height as during the flood of 1887. Nearly all the streets and all the business premises…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening last to take steps to raise a fund to assist the sufferers by the recent Queensland floods. There was a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE inundation from which Queensland is suffering is the most calamitous of which there is any record, and the chronicles of loss of property and life that have come to hand are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GRAFTON, Tuesday, 9.30 a.m. -- The river here is down to 16ft. At Copmanhurst it is 34 feet and falling very slowly. The back water is how off the greater portion of Prince-street. Very heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →UPWARDS of two inches of rain have fallen in the city and suburbs since yesterday morning. A telegram received by the police from Woodford last night states that rain fell steadily there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was another serious flood yesterday, which almost reached the level of the recent big flood. There was heavy rain on Saturday night. At 9 o'clock on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is a further heavy flood at Grafton-Almost the whole of Grafton is under water, and the residents have taken refuge in public buildings. The water abated on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ONLY a few days since the farmers of this district and the community dependent so completely upon the agricultural industry were congratulating themselves upon the magnificent season, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. Con. Taylor, who lives at Bellevue. about 22 miles from Ipswich, writes as follows to a friend in Toowoomba:—We had a very bad time of it here…
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