Six Dead in Queensland Floods 100,000 People Veiled In Silence Fears Held of Major Disaster
Daily Mirror · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 5
BRISBANE, Monday.--The silence surrounding the northern Queensland flood scene was dramatically broken this afternoon when Bowen…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Sunday. — The lower Burdekin River area is threatened with disastrous floods to-morrow or Tuesday as flood water 78 feet 6 inches deep sweeps…
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The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3
Cyclone off the North Queensland coast will delay the arrival of three troopships, bringing nearly 3000 Australians back to…
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The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Home Hill, already submerged by the great North Queensland floods, is facing a new peril. With people already forced to roof tops, a new torrent is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeal for Help As Floods Rise Many Lives Lost In Queensland
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Monday.--Worst floods on record have put hundreds of square miles of the Queensland coast from Mackay north under water. Wind and rain are still lashing the area and the floods continue…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Worst of the danger for residents of flooded Home Hill and Ayr has passed. Observers in an R.A.A.F. plane this…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE. Tuesday.--Worst of the danger for residents of flooded Home Hill and Ayr has passed. Observers in an R.A.A.F. plane this morning saw many people on the roofs in the…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Worst of the danger for residents of flooded Home Hill and Ayr has passed. Observers in an R.A.A.F. plane this…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Worst of the danger for residents of flooded Home Hill and Ayr has passed. Observers in an R.A.A.F. plane this…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Worst of the danger for residents off flooded Home Hill and Ayr has passed. Observers in an R.A.A.F. plane this…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1
Flood waters in Townsville on Sunday lifted a wooden house bodily off its blocks ia Sheriff Street, carried it with the four occupants (a man, his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Deaths in Floods River Menaces Three Towns
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Monday.—At least eight persons have been drowned in the record floods in North Queensland. Four of the victims were members of one family—a…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 9
Three ships bringing about 3,000 Servicemen and Servicewomen from the north have been delayed by a cyclone off the coast of Queensland…
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The Broadcaster · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 1
Eight people have been reported drowned in the floods in Queensland, and more deaths are feared…
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The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 16
The most disastrous floods on record have put hundreds of square miles of the Queensland coast from Mackay north under water. At least ten people have been drowned, and many other lives are feared…
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The Sun · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 3
GENERAL VIEW of Ayr, Queensland, where floods have caused much damage. The sugar mill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Floods Subsiding R.A.A.F. Planes Drop Food; Many Homeless Victims Saved
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 7
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds is being uncovered by slowly receding floodwaters in North Queensland. The cyclone that brought the floods is now moving away from the…
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Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 2
BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Nothing has been heard from the little township of Home Hill, on the banks of the Burdekin River, since flood…
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Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 2
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Nothing has been heard from the little township of Home Hill, on the banks of the Burdekin River, since flood…
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Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Nothing official has been heard from the little township of Home Hill, on the banks of the Burdekin River, since flood waters swept down on it at the weekend, but unconfirmed reports from…
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