This Week's Storms. Heavy Fails of Hail
We have been having storms in plenty of late thunder and a little lighting and torit has rain almost daily. On Monthly here was heavy hail and…
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Queensland Floods. Fifty Buildings Swept Away Food for Clermont Residents. Brisbane, Saturday Morning
Heavy rain fell on the drenched district of Clearmont on Thursday. Mr. Hardaere, Minister for Education, got through to Capella on Wednesday, and with several others went on to…
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A THRILL of sympathy will be felt everywhere for the Bufferers through the disastrous floods which have just resulted in the partial destruction of a town in Queensland, along with the death of more than 60…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Floods Clermont Disaster. Other Towns in Danger. Clermont (Q.)
Very heavy rain fell yesterday afternoon and night. It is possible that five bodies not yet identified are really bodies of persons who…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fitzroy River in Flood. Brisbane
The portmaster, Captain Forrester, has received a telegram from the harbour-master at Rockhampton, stating the Fitzroy River is in heavy flood. All the wharfs except that at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Journey to Clermont. Havoc Wrought by the Flood. Rockhampton
The Minister for Education arrived at Capella yesterday afternoon, and went on to Clermont by trolley. Altogether, about twenty-four persons went through on trollies. At…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Queensland Floods. 51 Bodies Buried. Townsville Affected. Fatalities in Other Tarts
BRISBANE, Friday.--A wire was received this afternoon by the Police Department from Inspector M'Grath from Clermont. It is as follows:…
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The Prospect and Sherwood Progress Association met in the School of Arts building in Davies-street on Wednesday. The president (Mr. J. Toy) was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Deluge. Cause of Queensland Floods Great Monsoonal Storms Earth Tremor in West
The first week of 1917 is remarkable for continued activity of the great monsoonal rainstorm, which in the last days of 1916 caused the heavy rains and disastrous floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Disaster Rivers Still in Flood Fifty-one Bodies Buried BRISBANE
All interest continues to centre on the disaster which has overcome Clermont. The latest wire indicates that 51 bodies have been buried. All arc now identified. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Old Time Flood
The present disastrous floods at Clermont, Queensland, recall tales of the happenings to our pioneer forefathers, which added thrill and zest to the grubbing in the virgin…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Queensland Floods. Fitzroy River Still Rising. (Continued from Page 4.) BRISBANE, Monday Afternoon
The [?] River at Rockhampton is still rising slowly and the water is now 26ft above the ordinary level. There is nothing fresh concering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Floods. Ruin of Clermont. Fitzroy River Rising at Rockhampton. Arisbane, Monday Morning
The floods at clermont have now subcribed and at Hugtenden the walers have fallen, the Flinders River [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods. Great Inundations Bridges Under Water. Settlers Rescued From Trees. Brisbane
The Commissioner of Police to-day received the following telegram:- "Hughenden reports that at Alice and Julia creeks the water is 15ft over the railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Floods Food for Clermont Delayed Fitzroy 48 Feet at Yaramba Still Rising at Rockhampton BRISBANE
Drummond-street, the main thoroughfare of Clermont, is now the bed of a creek. Food cannot reach Clermont until the railway between there and Capella, 30 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R.M.S. Maitai Ashore Vessel's Position Bad Engine Room Flooded Passengers and Mails Safe Wellington (N.z.)
The passengers and mails and some of the crew of the Maita[?], which was wrecked on a reef at Rarotonga, arrived in Auckland to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Hughenden. Greatest Flood for 40 Years. Stations in Dire Straits
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Advices from Hughenden, dated January 2, Just to hand, state that the Flinders River was running from hank to bank and overflowed. All North Hughcndcii…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scene of Desolation Queensland Flood Damage Thrilling Attempts at Rescue
BRISBANE, Saturday.--Clermont is a scene of utter desolation. Over .100 houses are either wrecked or have been carried away, and not a single building remains on the flat which Is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clermont Tragedy. Devastations of the Floods Latest Particulars. (Continued from page 6.) BRISBANE, Tuesday Afternoon
The clearing up of Claremont is proceeding steadily. News from Townsville this morning states that the Inkerman Bridge over the Burdekin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Floods. Ruin at Clermont. Estimate of the Damage. Brisbane, Tuesday Morning
The death roll caused by the fonds at Clermont and elsewhere in the valleys of the [?] Theresa, and Welfram Crecks, is now known to be 56. The bodies recovered number [?]…
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