Lithgow Colliery Flooded
LITHGOW, Monday.--When the auxiliary water supply dam broke yesterday and flooded Farmer's Creek the torrent overflowed the banks…
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Receding Floods Leave Trail of Devastation Death Roll Reaches Eleven Enormous Damage to Property-- Crops Ruined, Stock Drowned, Homes Wrecked Many Narrow Escapes
Floods have spread death and desolation over two States. In New South Wales seven lives have been lost, and four deaths have been reported from Queensland…
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WITH A BOAR THAT GOULD BE HEARD hundreds of yards away, thousands of tons of flood waters, forming a huge lake near the Lithgow Steel Works, disappeared with amazing suddenness into the bowels of the earth. Weakened by the weight of the water the roof of the Cobar Tunnel Colliery had collapsed. A wooden bridge, caught in the swirling water, was swept away and sucked into the gaping hole. The right-hand arrow marks the spot where the bridge stood. The other indicates the site of the subsidence. Inset…
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Everything possible is being done by the Government to relieve the distress caused by the floods in various parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Path of the Floods-- Jockeys Drive the Goats-- a Monster Man-eater
WHEN THE ALBUEY MAIL was held up by the floods, passengers and luggage were transferred by motor lorries to a relief train at Marinna. were transferred by motor lorries to a relief train at Marinna. SWIMMING BATHS are superfluous for the time being at Grafton. The flood waters have reached almost to the roof of…
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"IT might have been worse" will be the comment of many who read the reports from country districts this…
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Constable Laurence Aplin, drowned near Kyogle. Stanley Stephenson, 25, drowned while trying to cross the Lachlan, near Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Emotional Storms Woman's Weakness
Because it was stated that the woman was subject to "emotional storms." Judge Curlewis, at Darlinghurst Sessions, yesterday suggested…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods and Cyclone—Tragic Visitations in Country Districts
Rain of unprecedented severity caused severe floods in many…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →20 Inches a Week's Rain Dorigo Deluge State Was Drenched
FIGURES supplied by the Weather Bureau to-day give some idea of the enormous amount of rain which has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cyclone Havoc In Kalgoorlie-- Bridging A River In A Day
KALGOORLIE HAS BEEN RAVAGED by furious storms which have wrought widespread havoc. Above are the ruins of the Harley-street Presbyterian Church. SPANNING A RIVER IN A DAY. The engineers at Liverpool Camp…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Riverina. Benefits by Storm. Pastures Revived. Albury
Graziers and farmers state that enormous benefit should result from the rains. The only interest that has suffered has been grape-growing, the berries being, caught right at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gone Dry Despite Floods Grafton's Plight Water Supply Fails
AFTER having been flooded for, several days, and with the Clarence still 12 feet above normal, Grafton and South…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Queensland Floods Fear at Maryborough Brisbane
The Mary River at Marybrough has reached a level higher than during the floods of last year, and residents in the lower portions of the city have left their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nyngan in Danger Menaced by Big Flood Residents Seek Safety Settlers Cut Off From Food
A BIG flood is travelling down the Bogan River, and it is expected that Nyngan will be inundated to-morrow to a greater depth than ever before. The floods which have ravaged other districts in New South Wales are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Disastrous Floods. Much Damage Done; Lives Lost
Disastrous floods occurred in many centres along' the eastern coast of Australia, particularly in New South Wales, during last week and the early part of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Flooded Areas. Signs of Great Havoc. Water Police for Nyngan. (From Our Special Representative.) Orange
In response to an urgent message for assistamce from Inspector Byrne, of the Dubbo police, First-class Constable C. Day and Constable C. Mills, of the Water Police, left…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Lithgow Mines. Fear of Flooding. Water Pouring Into Cobar. Lithgow
Water from Farmers Creek, which has been pouring into Cobar Tunnel collleiy since Sunday through a fissure created in the roo[?] by the cloudburst, has begun to [?] its…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Macleay Overflows. Farms Flooded
The Rev. F. E. Blyth, of Gladstone, who arrived in Sydney yesterday, said that the floods in the Kempsey district were very serious. At Bellbrook, he said, the Macleay River…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Toll of the Floods. £500,000 Damage at Grafton. Tropical Depression Passes. other Lithgow Collieries Menaced
Excent in some western areas, abatement of the floods generally in New South Wales is predi[?]ted by the State Meteorologist. Fine weather should prevail over the State to-day. Damage in the Grafton district is estimated to be not less than…
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