At noon on Friday the waters had covered a portion of Stanley-street, and the people were wading knee-deep between the Graziers' Butchering Company and the South ...
Article : 1,975 wordsWet weather has prevailed here for the past fortnight (says our Murwillumbah correspondent). The river has risen twice in that period. On the last occasion (Saturday, the ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Norman Creek Bridge, the entrance to the Balmoral Division, was rendered impassable by the flood waters on Sunday morning, the stretch of water reaching from the reserve on ...
Article : 357 wordsOn Saturday, as in other suburbs so at Milton and Toowong, the flood waters were slowly but surely creeping back to their old level of a fortnight ago. The residents had, however, taken early warning, ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Commissioner for Police received a telegram stating that on Friday morning, about half-past 7 o'clock, a severe cyclone was experienced at Redcliffe, and that considerable ...
Article : 209 wordsA correspondent writing on Sunday last says: —The water hardly came up as high as it did a fortnight ago, but notwithstanding it came up within almost a foot, and too high to be ...
Article : 233 wordsDuring Friday forenoon the steam launch which had been anchored below the Indooroopilly Bridge was brought into requisition, and with her aid and the ferry skiff acting as a ...
Article : 455 wordsThe reserve and the park at the Five Ways were almost covered. The back waters were several feet over Stanley-street, and were flowing over Vulture-street and the Wellington-road ...
Article : 140 wordsA correspondent writing from the North Pine on the 16th instant says:—To-day the rainfall has been phenomenal, and for the third time within a fortnight the river is in full flood. It ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Deshon Estate resembled a vast lake, dotted here and there with the roofs of a few houses. A large number of the premises on the low-lying portions were completely submerged. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe rain continues to pour down unceasingly. In fact during the past eight days we have had more or less rain every day, occasionally heat, and the atmosphere ...
Article : 352 wordsOur Cleveland correspondent, writing on Friday night, says:—Dunwich reports a rainfall of 9in. for the twenty-four hours ending 9 o'clock this morning, and ...
Article : 218 wordsThe rise of the waters at Kangaroo Point on Sunday only served to conceal the scene of destruction and desolation caused by tho flood of a fortnight ago. As scarcely any of the ...
Article : 160 wordsAt Mount Crosby, on the Brisbane River, the flood waters on Saturday at noon were within 8ft. of the greatest height reached a fortnight since, and were rising at the rate of 15in. an ...
Article : 239 wordsThe storm at Sandgate yesterday week was of very great force (says our Sandgate correspondent), and at about a quarter-past 9 o'clock came like a tornado. It struck the town first ...
Article : 558 wordsOn Sunday At noon the flood waters in the shire of Coorparoo were said to have reached the level of the flood a fortnight ago. Messrs. M'Corkindale and Heslewood, ably ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 25 Feb 1893, Page 372
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