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  2. APPALLING STORM LOSSES.

    Thousands of persons are homeless and hundreds unemployed as the result of Friday's terrific gale responsible for widespread distress, the loss of numerous lives, and damage estimated at £500,000 in the metropolitan area. Over the week end reports came to hand regarding dangerous floodings ...

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  3. FLOOD DEATHS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 words
  4. IN THE KIEWA VALLEY.

    WODONGA, Sunday.--Two graziers with properties in the vicinity of Tawonga set out several days ago in charge of cattle en route to the Bogong High ...

    Article : 261 words
  5. Maize Losses at Bruthen.

    BBUTHEN, Sunday.--Although the floods in the Tambo River were not as large as others, they will prove disastrous, because all the maize had been ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. HEYFIELD TRAIN CANCELLED.

    HEYFIELD. Sunday.--The floods reached the highest, point, on Saturday When rail and road communication with neighboring towns was cut off. On ...

    Article : 500 words
  7. KOOWEERUP SWAMPED.

    KOOWEERUP, Sunday.--Kooweerup is isolated as the outcome of the severest flood in its history. About 1000 people are homeless and have lost everything ...

    Article : 271 words
  8. DAMAGE AT MOE.

    MOE, Sunday.--Miles of country on the Latrobe and Tanjil rivers, main drain and Narracan Creek have been submerged. A fall of eight inches of ...

    Article : 304 words
  9. SALE SURROUNDED.

    SALE, Sunday.--Flood waters cover the country to the south and west of the town of Sale. On the south boundary, in the vicinity of the common, with few ...

    Article : 579 words
  10. DAMAGE AT NARRE- WARREM.

    NARRE WARREN, Sunday.--Heavy rain commenced to fell on Thursday night and continued almost incessantly until Saturday morning, when at 9 a.m. ...

    Article : 310 words
  11. South Gippsland Tragedies.

    KOOWEERUP, Sunday.--Washed from a jinker while attempting to cross the flooded Tarago River at Longwarry North, Cr. D. Dowd, senior, 55 years, of ...

    Article : 445 words
  12. CAUGHT IN STORM.

    MT. GAMBLER, Sunday.--Caught in the cyclonic disturbance near Portland yesterday, Pilot R. J. Carter mid Lieutenant A. Kenna, of Adelaide, had ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. REFUGEES RESCUED.

    Help for nearly 500 refugees from Kooweerup, including four hospital cases from the local hospital, was provided during the week end by the Railway ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. TRAFALGAR PEOPLE TRAPPED.

    TRAFALGAR, Sunday.--Trafalgar resembled a beseiged town. The Princes Highway, west and east, is under water. The railway line is washed out. From ...

    Article : 409 words
  15. STATE OF THE ROADS.

    The following summary indicating the state of important motoring roads was issued by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria last night:-- ...

    Article : 163 words
  16. WONTHAGGI RAILWAY DAMAGED.

    WONTHAGGI, Sunday.--Damage to the extent of thousands of pounds has been done by the storm, which broke over Wonthaggi and the surrounding ...

    Article : 445 words
  17. GIPPSLAND FLOODS.

    The four members of the State Cabinet who were in Melbourne during the week were in constant consultation over what the Premier described as "a terrible ...

    Article : 501 words
  18. Train Services Curtailed.

    For to-day the terminus of south Gippsland line will be Kooweerup [?]41 miles from Melbourne. On the main Gippsland line trains will run as far as ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. STOCK DROWNED AT CALDERMEADE.

    LANG LANG, Sunday.--The floods have subsided at Caldermeade, but there have been heavy losses of stock by drowning in this district. Chief sufferers ...

    Article : 213 words
  20. MIRBOO NORTH GETS 1050 POINTS.

    MIRBOO NORTH. Sunday--From 8 p.m. Thursday to noon Saturday 1050 points of rain fell here. Floods in creeks and rivers have done extensive ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. HURRICANE AT KORUMBURRA.

    KORUMBURRA, Sunday.--The worst storm in the history of the district was experienced here. Thu rain, which started on Thursday afternoon, was ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. HELP BY AIRCRAFT.

    Nearly 1000 lb. of yeast was dropped in various isolated Gippsland towns yesterday by aircraft. The yeast was a gift from two manufacturing companies ...

    Article : 401 words
  23. PIPE LINE DAMAGED.

    BELGRAVE, Sunday.--Exceptional rainfall at Silvan--13 inches being recorded in the gauge at Silvan dam during the last three days--caused damage yesterday to the pipe line. ...

    Article : 179 words
  24. CATANI RESIDENTS' ORDEAL.

    LANG LANG, Sunday.--The entire settlement of Catani was under ten feel of water this morning. Word reached Lang Lang that the twenty or thirty ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. RIVER GOULBURN SPREADS.

    SEYMOUR, Sunday.--The floods in this district were the most disastrous and the worst for the last eighteen years. Heavy rain in the watershed, and local creeks ...

    Article : 404 words
  26. DESOLATION AT ROSEDALE

    ROSEDALE, Sunday.--As the result of a phenomenal rainfall of 512 inches in the 48 hours, the whole of the town was inundated. The Latrobe River flooded ...

    Article : 346 words
  27. SHEEP LOSSES IN THE COUNTRY.

    BENALLA, Sunday.--As a result of the rains the Broken River has risen considerably, but there is no danger of floods. The cold snap yesterday caused ...

    Article : 196 words
  28. TRAFFIC BLOCKED AT LEONGATHA.

    LEONGATHA, Sunday.--A fall of 9 inches 5 points of rain in 40 hours, commencing at 5 p.m. on Thursday, caused the rivers and creeks to overflow their ...

    Article : 332 words
  29. TOORA AND TARWIN IN SERIOUS PLIGHT.

    TOORA. Sunday.--This portion of South Gippsland is entirely isolated by the worst flood in history. Families art isolated, and drownings have been ...

    Article : 340 words
  30. FARMS ABANDONED.

    YALLOURN, Sunday. --Numerous homes and dairying farms on the fertile Latrobe Hals have been abandoned. Settlers' homes in many instances have ...

    Article : 195 words
  31. Warburton Bridges Swept Away

    WARBURTON, Saturday.--The flood at Warburton was the worst within living memory. Last evening the river rose at the rate of more than a fool an hour ...

    Article : 422 words
  32. MAFFRA CUT OFF.

    MAFFRA, Sunday.--Rain started here on Thursday afternoon and continued for forty hours, accompanied by heavy gales, a total of 369 points being registered. ...

    Article : 351 words
  33. RESCUES AT YALLOURN.

    [?]YALLOURN, Sunday.--Rescue work along the Latrobe flats was continued throughout yesterday. Two of the settlers who were menaced--Messrs. ...

    Article : 180 words
  34. Huge Lake at Yering.

    Conditions at Yering, beyond Lillydale, were described by local residents as remarkable. No portion of the new railway viaduct, between Yering and Yarra ...

    Article : 82 words
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