Disastrous Cyclone. Sweeps Northern Queensland
A terrific cyclone swept across Northern Queensland last Wednesday night, causing extensive damage over a wide area. The cyclone was followed by…
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1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 94
In the News To-day the Cyclone Belt
TO a certain extent, Carine resembles Manly in its lay out, though the main street runs parallel with the beach, and in place of towering pines there are palms…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thrilling Voyage. Stranded on Reef In Grip of Cyclone. BRISBANE
Saved from becoming a total wreck and almost adding one more ship to the already long list of victims of the dreaded Barrier Reef, says a report from Cairns, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Queensland Floods Pall Over State Fishermen Missing Parties Vanish in Cyclone Wall of Water Receding Slowly Trail of Desolation Revealed Brisbane
ALTHOUGH the flood waters are gradually receding, there still hangs over a big stretch of rich and fertile country, like a vast patt, the shadow of unrelieved Calamity…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone's Toll Death Roll Now 36 Damage at Cairns Brisbane
The list of deaths due to last week's cyclone is gradually growing. In the Ingham district alone the fatalities number 24, while 12…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leaking Ship's Fight Against Gale 160 Miles to Port Struck a Derelict ?
WITH [?] pumps working at high pressure to keep to check water which was pouring in through a brakes sea-valve and a fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tram Struck Violent Storm in N.Z. Cool Driver Auckland
A violent storm struck, the city last night Torrential rainfell, and a waterspout occurred at Manurewa…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A View of Cairns, Which Last Week Experienced the Most Disastrous Cyclone in Its History
The wind reached a velocity of nearly 100 miles an hour, and was accompanied by terrific rain. The main streets were converted into lakes, and it became impossible to cross them. Numerous buildings collapsed like cards, and thousands of sheets of galvanised iron were wrenched from hundreds of houses and blown about like paper. The damage is estimated- at anything up to £250,000. Other parts of Queensland also suffered heavily, and 20 lives were lost…
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FURTHER heavy falls, of rain in the far north have had the effect of cutting off communication between some towns. It is proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Medindie Bridge. May Be Delayed. Floods Coming Down. Broken Hill
Menindie advices state that the Darling River, there is at present stationary at 13ft 9in above summer level. It is expected that the river will drop two feet, but another rese…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Flood Losses. Herbert River Mills
The Colonial Sugar Refining Company has received messages from ingham, Queensland, from the managers of their Victoria and Macknade milis, on the Herbert River, to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tragedies of the Floods. Death-roll Increased. Additional Bodies Recovered. Great Destruction of Property. BRISBANE
Advice received by the Acting Commissioner for Police to-day is that the death-roll in the Ingham district now includes 24 persons. Among those drowned were a female aboriginal, Lucy Cassady, and two kanaka boys. Fourteen bodies have been recovered…
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TYPICAL CANE-PLANTER'S RESIDENCE IN THE REGION AFFECTED BY THE FLOODS…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Thunderstorm. Lightning Strikes Tram. Auckland
During a thunderstorm this evening a tramcar was struck by lightning. The current struck the overhead wires, travelled down the trolley, and disabled the engines. The…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A North Coast Flood Incident : the Macksville-bowraville Mail
We set out from Macksville by mail car for Bowraville, a distance of nine miles (writes a correspondent in sending this picture). Rain was falling heavily in typical North Coast fashion. The creeks were running bank high, carrying their flood waters into the Nambucca River, which was rapidly rising. About six miles of our journey had been covered when we suddenly came…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Heavy Toll of the Floods Bodies Washed Up Appalling Q'land Losses Ingham's Dead 24 BRISBANE
IT probably will be weeks before the full death-roll of the floods is known. The police ore kept busy searching for bodies and for persons…
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The Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Harvey, yesterday decided the suit in which Charles George Lancaster, of Fleet Street, Hurstville, sought the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Escaped Cyclone's Fury
The steamer Malabar, which reached Sydney this morning, experienced little of the fury of the cyclone which swept the Queensland coast, last week…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Epic Heroism Devoted Blacks Rescue Whites Flood and Cyclone
The heroism of North Queensland blacks stands out among the latest stories of rescue work in the area devastated by flood and cyclone. At Cardwell, a black, whose gin had died from exposure…
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Further light to moderate rain fell yesterday on the north coast, and at scattered places on the tablelands and slopes, and in the north-west districts…
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