The flood water reached its highest point at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, having risen to a height of 11 feet 7 inches above the flood of 1870--until the present the highest recorded in ...
Article : 2,289 wordsYesterday evening, about 4 o'clock, the waters at Burnett Swamp bridge had fallen to about one or two feet below the level of the 1890 flood, and again the road became passable ...
Article : 968 wordsAn extraordinary published by the Queensland Times on Saturday says: News of the worst casualty in connection with the flood came to hand at about 12 o'clock on Saturday morning. ...
Article : 223 wordsThe goods in the warehouse, of Messrs. Scott, Dawson, and Stewart have been seriously damaged by the flood, notwithstanding the efforts made by the firm to minimise the loss as ...
Article : 380 wordsWe are informed by the Brisbane Gas Company that if the Fire Brigade are able to complete their work in time, the engineer hopes to be able to turn on the gas this afternoon. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe residences of Messrs. R. Whitehouse and G. P. Wilson at Riverton, just above the Indooroopilly bridge, were carried down the river on Saturday night. The house of the ferryman, ...
Article : 350 wordsOn Saturday evening the gunboat Gayundah was safely moored in Garden Reach close to the bank. Captain Drake had taken every precaution to ensure security to the vessel. ...
Article : 634 wordsAppalling as was the flood at its highest, the spectacle now that the waters have subsided is even still more heart-rending. Although the water has disappeared it has left behind it ...
Article : 185 wordsMessrs. D. L. Brown and Co. have not experienced any loss at the Eagle street warehouse, where they were "right as a trivet," owing to their timely efforts to place the goods ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. E. S. Cardell, Moggill, managed to make the journey to town this morning, and from information supplied by him it appears that the whole of the Moggill district has been ...
Article : 116 wordsCaptain Almond, acting under advice from the Colonial Treasurer, is taking means to have the dynamite and other explosives damaged by flood waters in the magazines at Eagle Farm ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsIn another place appears an advertisement notifying the departure of the steamer. Lady Musgrave from the Boundary street wharf at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The vessel will carry ...
Article : 35 wordsA valued correspondent sends us the following: Without doubt, the spot from which to view the flood as a spectacle was One-tree Hill. The misty state of the atmosphere ...
Article : 1,236 wordsThere are easier tasks that might be given to a pedestrian than to visit the St. Lucia and and neighbouring estates when a flood is up. The public in its generalising way apply the ...
Article : 584 wordsThe captain of the Pippo reports to Captain Almond, portmaster, that there is a large accumulation of bamboo in the centre of the outer dredge cutting, which will probably have ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Under Secretary at the Post and Telegraph Department has received word from the telegraph manager at Ipswich that he is doing all he can to have the telegraph wires in order, ...
Article : 567 wordsIt is reported that the Humpybong beach is strewn with every conceivable kind of wreckage. The sight can be imagined to a certain extent when an attempt is made to calculate ...
Article : 152 wordsThe harbour master has received the following report from Captain Brennan, of the steamer Laura, now on duty on Port Office work in Moreton Bay: "February 7. Left the Pilo ...
Article : 133 wordsAbout half-past 2 o'clock yesterday Senior-constable Concannon found two little children named James and Annio Smith, aged about seven and five years old respectively, in a house ...
Article : 144 wordsAs the river left the Gardens yesterday, the gunboat Paluma was left high and dry on the main road leaving from the Edward street gate to the Garden ferry. The ship's boats were got ...
Article : 308 wordsThe scene at the Town Hall yesterday morning was apparently one of confusion, but one that was soon reduced to order. Crowds of applicants for food and clothing, several ...
Article : 441 wordsIt was stated in error in yesterday's issue that Mr. M'Carthy had been drowned at Swan Hill. The drowning of Mr. George Keogh was the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe flotsam which has found its way to the bay continues to come in to Sandgate, and salvage operations were persevered in all day yesterday, and doubtless will while there is ...
Article : 674 wordsThe Indooroopilly Pocket suffered considerably in the flood of 1890, but the damage done on the present occasion was more serious by far than that sustained three years ago. In ...
Article : 402 wordsThe following is a list of the vessels ashore in the river this morning: The Derwent and Adonis are aground at Luggage Point. The Advance is aground at Fisherman Island. ...
Article : 86 wordsA message was yesterday received by the Post and Telegraph Department from the Postmaster at Gympie as follows: "Am sending mails for Brisbane and the south by train, ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Wed 8 Feb 1893, Page 5
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