CYCLONE. Strikes Cairns. Great Damage. Brisbane
A wireless message has been received by the Postal Department in Brisbane from the postmaster at Cairns, by means of the steamer Urilla, which is in port in the…
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Where The Cyclone Struck-- Cairns, Has Been Half Wrecked
ITS FIRST AND LAST RIDE.--A dray which got tired proceeded on its course in Botany yesterday. TWO ROSES on a single stalk; grown by Mr. W. H. Wiilingdon of Belmore…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In Gale of Wind Methodist Fete Opened Wentworthville's Success
"We are very grateful to the people who have attended in such large numbers, especially those who are members of other churches who have come to help us. We are more than thankful to Mr. J. Griffiths, the organiser of the fete. He was constantly at the wheel, and this gathering is a monument…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Cyclone Havoc in Nth. Queensland Many Homeless Damage £250,000 BRISBANE
CAIRNS and many small towns in North Queensland now resemble towns in the French war zone in 1918…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torn Down Cyclone Flays Cairns £200,000 Damage Houses Wrecked, Telegraph Poles Down Brisbane
Roaring in from the sea a savage cyclone has wrecked half of Cairns, and caused damage estimated at up to £200,000. Shops and houses have been ripped from their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Victims Mayor Sympathetic
When a letter was read at Granville Council meeting from the Mayor of Cessnock, submitting an appeal for persons who suffered in the recent floods in that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Over Flooded Bridge. Woman Doctor Wades to Patient
To reach a patient that had met with a serious accident, Dr. Joyce Wharton had to wade across a bridge that wan four toot under flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melusia in Cyclone
According to information received in Sydney yesterday by Burns, Ph[?]p and Co.Ltd., the Meusia, bound form Sydney to Rabaul has been in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Scene of the Terrific Cyclone
ABBOTT-STREET, THE PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARE OF CAIRNS. Included in the demolished buildings were St. Monica's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Masonic Hall, and many business premises. The damage is estimated at between £100,000 and £250,000…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Flying Iron Cyclone's Trail Flooded Cairns No Drinking Water Brisbane
Miles of sugar cane and many houses are under water, and it is futile to attempt to estimate the extent of the damage caused by the cyclone says…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cairns Cyclone Many Lives in Danger Homes Are Under Flood Waters Brisbane
A cyclone, which brought in its train torrential rein, has devested the North Queensland districts, and caused heavy floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone. North Queensland. "Worst on Record." BRISBANE
Communication with the cyclone-stricken area in North Queensland is still interrupted. Messages received by the Acting Commissioner for Police to-day told of the excellent work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Brighton's Guinea Pig War Big Storm Over a Small Matter
GUINEA pigs, ordinarily rather unassuming if prolific little animals, have in a Melbourne suburb become as important as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →V.C. Feats Unsurpassed Bravery in Condamine Floods 7 Drowned; Rescue Impossible Toowoomba
"Feats of unsurpassed bravery, worthy of the Victoria Cross, were performed in the Condamine River on Monday night, when seven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loss of Life Feared Queensland Floods Whole of North Menaced Brisbane
It is feared that the disastrous floods in the North of Queensland will result in great loss of life. The Tully River is now six miles wide, the Burdekin River is 66 feet above its summer level, and the township of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After the Cyclone
A view of Cairns after the cyclone of 1920…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cairns Suffers After the Cyclone Appalling Destruction Brisbane
Latest reports from Cairns indicate that miles of sugar-cane country and many houses are under water. No lives, however, were lost as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tales of Heroism From Grim Lines of Giants Flame Cairns, Levelled by Cyclone. Is Still Isolated Rivers Reach Record Flood Levels: Ship Aground on Reef for 39 Hours Brisban
Parts of North Queensland are in sad plight owing to the ruthless destruction caused by the cyclonic storms and resultant floods. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Gladys Is Storm Centre, in "Blue Mazurka" Controversy London
The appointment of Miss Gladys Moncrieff to the leading role of "The Blue Mazurka," following on the illness of Miss Elizabeth Peeby, a Viennese actress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Queensland Cyclone Claims Many Victims Storm's Awful Toll Twenty Dead and Many Missing Northern Queensland Suffers Brisbane
Twenty lives have been lost and many people are missing as the result of the cyclone. At Beamerside, whole families have been wiped out. The coastal steamer Innisfail and several launches…
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