The Queensland Floods
The Methodist · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 3
Recent disastrous floods have drawn universal attention to Clermont, Queensland. My thoughts have been, carried back to my journey thither in February, of 1876. I came to Sydney from England during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Close and Oppressive Heavy Thunderstorms Over 4 Inches at Coonambly
The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 6
City Forecast. -- Warm and sultry, thundershowers likely at night; northeast winds. New South Wales Forecast. -- More rain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood at Coonamble Five Inches of Rain Coonamble
The Sun · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 6
A heavy rainstorm started on Thursday night, and up to 9 this morning over 5in. had been registered. It is still raining heavily, and there is every prospect of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Progress of the War Floods Help Russia
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 11
This morning's cables confirm and extend the reported success of the Russo-Roumanian counter offensive…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heavy Rain at Coonamble Coonamble
Sunday Times · Sunday 21 January 1917 · page 2
Heavy rains set in on Thursday night and continued throughout yesterday, and it is still raining. Over four inches fell during the last 24 hours, making a total of over five inches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coming Storm
Sunday Times · Sunday 21 January 1917 · page 1
Wilhelm: "I don't like me der look of dose Clouds!"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deluge in Country Five Inches in Night Floods at Coonamble COONAMBLE
The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1917 · page 4
A heavy rainstorm started on Thursday night, and up to 9 this morning over 5in. had been registered. It is still raining heavily, and there is every prospect of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Calm Before the Storm Huns Dread Great Offensive Miserable Domestic Conditions Ground Bones and Offal Eaten 171 st Day of the Third Year of the War LONDON
The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1917 · page 1
German newspapers are emphasising the Allies' preparations for a great western offensive. The "Kolnische Zeitung" says:--…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thunder Inland Further Heavy Rain Change in the South
The Sun · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 3
City Forecast.--Warm and sultry, thunderstorm likely at night; north-east winds. New South Wales Forecast.--Cloudy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Floods. Cleaning Up Clermont
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 4
BRISBANE, Saturday.--The Government has advanced £300 to the Clermont Citizens' Committee for the purpose of paying a salvage gang, which lain been some time engaged In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Danube in Flood. Bridges Carried Away. Enemy Facing Disaster
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1917 · page 5
LONDON, Sunday.--A Petrograd message states Unit (Roaster has overtaken the enemy armies on the Danube, the bridges over which wore carried away by the currents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm in the City Heavy Rain Inland Cooler Generally
The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3
City Forecast.-- Clearing, cool; squally southerly winds. New South Wales Forecast.-- Thunder storms in the north east, more rain on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thunderstorm. Heavy Rain in the City
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 10
At 6.40 p.m. yesterday a heavy thunderstorm occurred in the city. It was one of a serles of cyclonic thunderstorms associated with a monsoonal disturbance which at 9 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dust, Hail and Rain Thunderstorm in City. Experiences in Suburbs
Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain in the North. Over Four Inotes at Glen Mines. Streets and Parks Flooded
Evening News · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 7
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Rain Storms. Damage in Country
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 10
DUBBO, Tuesday.--Yesterday afternoon torrential rain, accompanied by a fierce southerly wind and an occasional loud clap of thunder, fell in Dubbo, and in less than half-an-hour the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone Wrecks Wheat Stack. Young, Sednesday
Evening News · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 7
A Revoler's M'Rald damage a wheat slice of 21,000 bags lossing timber, Iron and 1000 bags of wheat to all corners of the railway yard, and causing about £200 damage. Twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm at Dubbo. Dubbo
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 12
Yesterday evening a severe storm passed over Dubbo. The wind blew with hurricane violence, and was accompanied by torrential rains. The streets and gutters were flooded,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Disastrous Queensland Floods
Sydney Mail · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 21
Cleaning Up the Debris in Drummond-street. THE shop in the foreground, which has been gutted, was occupied by Mr. Pold, chemist, the Mayor of Cle[?] whose handling of the affairs of the township during the stressing period called [?]rth whole[?]ted praise and appreciation…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Queensland Floods--The Flinders River Many Miles Wide
Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 30
The Flinders River, the normal width of which is about 100 yards. The Flooded Country around the Flinders River. Walker's Creek, between Richmond and Hughenden, where the mail train was stuck up by the flood…
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