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Floods & storms, 1917

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 47

Queensland Floods. Two Men Washed From Sulky. Brisbane

Evening News · Saturday 10 March 1917 · page 5

[?] cental districts are [?] inkerman Bridge over [?] submerged, and is [?] The malls and railways…

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Floods in Queensland Man Washed Away BRISBANE

The Sun · Saturday 10 March 1917 · page 5

Telegrams from the north report that the rivers are flooded, and the train services interrupted. The Inkerman Bridge, on the railway…

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Floods in Queensland Man Washed Away BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 11 March 1917 · page 2

Telegrams from the north report that the rivers are flooded and the train services interrupted. The Inkerman Bridge, on the railway…

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Floods in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1917 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.-- Telegrams received by the Railway Department report damage to railways and interruption to traffic in the porth. Wash outs have occurred on the great…

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Drowned in Flooded River. An Engineer's Death in Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

A man named James More, chief engineer at Bush Bros., Invicta (Q.) Sugar Mill, and another employee, named Jack Ryan, in a sulky, attempted to cross the…

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Floods. in Queensland. Rockhampton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 6

The Hallway Department advises that passengers to and from Clermont were taken across Theresa Creek, where the flood, waters had fallen considerably, and traffic…

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Floods in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.--An average of six inches of rain has fallen throughout Chillagoe, Etheridge, and Mount. Garnet districts in six or seven hours. The water is now eight feet…

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Queensland Railways Damaged by Floods

Evening News · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 2

Considerable damage has been done to the railways in parts of Queensland by floods. The Etheridge line, near [?] has been so badly damaged that it is impossible for trains to…

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Queensland Floods. Brisba[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 10

Flood conditions still preva[?] the northern part of the State. Latest reports state that the railways continue to be affected, and serious damage has been done on the…

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Railways Under Water. Queensland's Serious Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 8

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The district engineer at Cairns has telegraphed that the Etheridge line has been so damaged that it was impossible to proceed beyond Saltwater Creek. One…

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Floods in North-Central Queensland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 9

Floods in the northern central districts are again arousing anxiety. Inkerman Bridge over the Burdekin River is submerged, and is believed to be damaged. The mails and railways…

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Thunderstorms and Rain. On Coast and Tablelands. Heavy Falls in South-west

Evening News · Thursday 15 March 1917 · page 5

[?] Gunnedah, [?] Goulburn, Dungen [?]…

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Meningitis. Is It a Flood Disease?

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 March 1917 · page 4

COLLARENEBRI, Wednesday.--Mr, W. O'Neill, who recently lost a son, three years of age, through meningitis, has lost another child from the same disease. The little sufferer was…

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Antarctic Rainstorm. Heavy Rain in the South

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 7

The Antarctic rainstorm operating over southern New South Wales exerted considerable energy during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, and light to heavy rainfall resulted over…

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Storm in West Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 9

PERTH, Thursday.--Hedland reports a storm in the north-west as violent as the Koombana hurricane of four years ago. The sea destroyed 200 yards of Hedland's foreshore wall…

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Storm on North-west Coast. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 6

A willy-willy struck Port Hodland, in the north-west, yesterday morning. The storm is considered to be more severe than when the Koombana was lost. It was still raging last…

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Chiefly Fine and Cool Heavy Coastal Rain

The Sun · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 2

City Forecast.-- Showery, with south- west winds. Other Forecasts.-- New South Wales: Cloudy to showery, with showers along the coast and…

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What the Soldiers Sing. How the Songs are Written. THE Seafortbs went into action through a terrific thunderstorm, boldly singing:—

The World's News · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 10

"Though the day be dark and gloomy, Far away across the blue There are those you've left behind you Watching, waiting there for you!"…

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Flooding the Cottages

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 5

The Farmers' Fertilizers Corporation, Ltd., Mcrrylivnds, wrote to this week's council meeting stating that serious damage was occurring to their property, on…

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Winner Storms Advent in N.s.w. Cold in the South

Sunday Times · Sunday 18 March 1917 · page 8

The most noticeable feature of the week's weather was the advent of the winter type of storm system over New South Wales. For many weeks previously the bulk of the rainfall…

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