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Painful d[?] of the great good at Clermont are coming to hand about. The wldespfead character of the [?] art the destruction of [?] caused mu[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Telegraph manager a [?] purported this Afternoon that the [?] between there and [?] is still interrupted. The [?]master and staff at clermont escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Devastating rainstorms of tropical intensity have prevaited over Northern and Cental Queensland during the past few days, flooding the rivers and converting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAP SHOWING THE AREA WHERE THE GREAT FLOOD DISASTER TOOK PLACE…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Carroll (who formerly resided at Clermont) says there was a big flood in the year 1870, about which old residents have many memories. The waters on that occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Light rain commenced at midday on Wednesday at Clermont, mid this proved the prelude to the most disastrous floods. The rain became heavy about…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Messrs. MacDonald, Hamilton, and Co., managing agents for the A.U.S.N. Co., to-day received a telegram stating that on Wednesday flood waters were expected to be over…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Alpin W. Cameron, of the Bank of New South Wales, who has resided in Clermont for some years, was able to-night to throw some light on the cause of the disaster. Clermont,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A thunderstorm occurred during yesterday afternoon in the city. The cause was the culmination of the persistent sultry cloudy weather, resulting in 40 points of rain being…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →It was not for four days after Clermont was overwhelmed that news of the disaster reached Rockhampton. Clermont is situated between Sandy Creek and a lagoon. Once the creek overflowed, and the lagoon extended, the township would be the natural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Latest reports from Clermont show the seriousness of the situation in the central town. The list of casualties, as is so far known,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Six lives were lost and many farmers and orchardists ruined as a result of a terrible storm, followed by disastrous floods, in the western districts of New South Wales in the early part…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Owing to prevalence of monsoonal conditions in Queensland, with a persistent heavy gale from the north-east, there have occurred over a wide area rains of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The floods on the Central Railway are abating, except in the Dawson Valley, where the waters are rising and it is expected they will canse an interruption…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although the flood waters are subsiding at Clermont information about the loss of life and damage brought in coming through slowly. Great distress prevails at Clermont, where food…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six people were drowned in flood waters caused by an extraordinary storm in the Bathurst and Orange districts, N.S.W., last week, when over five…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The biggest flood in the history of the town is being experienced at Hughenden. A number of the people have been rescued by the police in boats…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday.--Details of the Clermont disaster are slowly drifting through, and every additional fact emphasises tho awfulness of the catastrophe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Railway Department has received the following wire from Townsville, dated 3.40 p.m. Tuesday:-- "To-day the water is reported to be over all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further heavy rain has fallen in this district, averaging two to four inches. The whole district has been affected. The Aramac Creek is now over its banks, and the Torrens…
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