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Further particulars have been received respecting the damage caused at Townsville by the storm. Amongst the buildings which suffered damage was the hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The only fresh news beyond that wired yesterday, re the storm in the north, is an official statement from the Electric Telegraph Department that the only means of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram from Cairns, dated at twenty minutes to 2 this morning, gives additional particulars of the shipping disasters and casualties at Townsville. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weather was still wet up to 9 this morning. Over 7½in. of rain fell, making 18in. for two days, and 24in. for the month. The river, which rose suddenly yesterday morning, has broken over its…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Although telegraphic communication with Townsville has been restored, it is only by a very circuitous route, and messages have to be repeated through three or four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Saturday.—A inter message from Townsville received by way of Bowen, states that the cyclone began to be serious on Sunday evening at dusk, when sheets of iron…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Monday.—News has been received from Townaville that the body of the stranger sound on Friday night proves to be that of Thomas Holmes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messages received from Clermont state that that place is completely isolated and surrounded by water. Culverts and bridges were washed away, and the loss to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following telegram has been received from Clermont under Friday's date:—Heavy floods occurred at Clermont on Thursday night, and a great amount of damige was done to the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TOWNS VILLE, Saturday.--The cyclone which proved so disastrous to this town began to be serious on Sunday evening at dusk, when sheets of iron flew about in all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Communication has been restored with Townsville, and messages dated Sunday and Monday are arriving. The cyclone began to be serious on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROCKHAMPTON, Monday.--The river here is still rising, and from the volume of water now coming down there is every prospect of its being as high, if not higher,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After her dangerous and exciting experiences on the Queensland coast, the steamer Leura arrived from Townsville last night. Captain Brown reports that the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Leura reached the wharf about 3 this morning, direct from Townsville, and a "Daily Telegraph" representative Interviewed Captain Brown, as lie left tho bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Leura arrived at the Kingstreet wharf at 3 o'clock this morning, direct from Towhsville. It seldom falls to the lot of passengers or vessels to emerge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The weather on Saturday was fine, but a thunderstorm occurred in the afternoon. Yesterday was also fine, but very close. A thunderstorm passed over the town at 11 o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The experiences of those on board the Aramac, which arrived from Brisbane and the north, have been thrilling. "She's a wonderful ship to have lived through it,"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the Aramac drew near her company's wharf last night the people there gave her a cheer. She was one of the ships that were nearly lost in the Townsville hurricane. Everybody belonging to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Aramac arrived from Northern Queensland about 9 o'clock last evening, when a representative of the Herald interviewed several of the passengers regarding the weather experienced during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Aramac, which had such a perilous time in the recent gale at Townsville, arrived safely in Sydney last evening. While the vessel was at Cairns, where…
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