New Flood Boats
Kearsley Shire Council last night decided to purchase new flood boats for both Wollombl and Branxton to replace the present boats, which are…
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Floods & storms, 1928
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 19
Queensland Floods Mount Morgan's Plight a Night of Terror Brisbane
Torrential falls of rains, added to by the bursting of the Mount Morgan Company's big dam in the Dee River, caused a veritable night of terror in Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →150 RESCUED North Queensland Floods Several Drowned Rockhampton
Latest advices are that the floods on the Fitzroy River are still rising and rescue parties have saved more than 150 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Floods Drowning Tragedy Feared Seven Persons Lost Brisbane
According to a bulletin issued to-day by the Meterological Office, the disturbance which has linen causing heavy and widespread rain in southern parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MISSING Northern Flood Victims 40 Inches of Rain Rockhampton
The floods that swept down Dawson Valley have made the condition of the people pitiable. The flood waters reached a height…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Floods Further Damage Loss of Life Brisbane
During the past 24 hours, further rain of torrential nature fell in the south coast division particularly between Gladstone and Caloundra, the chief…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PERISHED Family of Six Queensland Floods People Forced From Houses
ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday. It now seems certain that the six members of the Williams family at Gelobera in the Dawson…
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The bodies of two children of the Williams family, Elsie aged 10, and Dorothy seven, were found to-day three-quarters of a mile from where Muldoon's body was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods
Tributaries of the Mississippi River are again overflowing, and grievous distress has resulted in many section of Alabama and other States…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood's Toll Another Seven Victims Bodies Recovered Rockhampton
It is feared that a tragedy, eclipsing the one at Globera when seven people were drowned, has happened at Bundalba, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Floods Brisbane
Although the Fitzroy River is rising, and there is a prospect of a flood in Rockhampton all interest is now centred in the Dawson Valley, where a large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Weather
It is many years since Brisbane experienced a flood of any dimensions, but it very nearly did so last week. The rain just stopped in time, when the danger…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Trail of Death Frightful Week of Tornadoes Twelve Dead Unprecedented Storms Cause £2,000,000 Damage CHICAGO
Twelve lives have been lost in a frightful week of tornadoes, which swept the country from end to end, leaving a wake of death and destruction. The tornadoes were of unprecedented violence, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Cause Drains Choked by Debris Hamilton Report
One of the chief contributory causes of the flooding of Tudor-street Extended, Hamilton, has, it is thought, been discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Falling North Queensland Damage Trains Resume Rockhampton
The floodwaters are falling slowly in and near the city, but are failing rapidly at Yaamba, which is a good sign. All the train services have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in America
Latest estimates of the toll of the floods in the Southern States show 12 dead and 8000 temporarily homeless with between £2,000,000 and £3,000,000 damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Floods Brisbane
A terrifying night was experienced during the flood last week-end by the postmistress at Wura, who had only come out of hospital a fortnight before, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Precautions Repairs to Hamilton Drains
Residents at the lower end of Farquhar and Ravenshaw streets, Hamilton South, are to be relieved of flood danger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wickham Drainage Expert to Submit Scheme Flood Measures
A flood prevention scheme will shortly be submitted to the Wickham Council by Mr. Peak, a member of the Public Works Experts Committee,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Towline Broke Steamer Abandoned Adrift in Gale Rockhampton
The steamer Canonbar returned to Gladstone last night, and reported that when towing the steamer Nautilus to Brisbane the towline broke, and the…
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