Except in the spots where the flood waters were held by embankments, as in a reservoir and in swampy localities, the flood waters had on Saturday entirely disappeared. Fortunately ...
Article : 1,428 wordsMost of the land in the district over whien the Stephens Divisional Board have control lies high, and, as a consequence, the damage in this portion of the suburbs is comparatively ...
Article : 65 wordsConsidering the enormous area of the Booroodabin Division which was covered by the flood waters, and which was subjected to the force of the rushing current, it is surprising ...
Article : 471 wordsAs soon as the flood waters began to subside in South Brisbane the Municipal Council took steps to improve the sanitary conditions of the borough. Their first object was the cleansing ...
Article : 240 wordsA correspondent writes:—The waters at no time came within 15ft. of the level of flood of 1887. The rails of the line over the Logan Railway Bridge were 8ft. above the flood at its ...
Article : 219 wordsIt has already been stated that the district known as the Long Pocket, Indooroopilly, suffered as badly as, if not worse than, any locality in the neighbourhood of Brisbane. ...
Article : 462 wordsIn the Shire of Windsor the settlement in the vicinity of the Albion auffered very severely during the recent flood, and the water rose to a greater height than it had ever been known to ...
Article : 437 wordsWe are indebted to a correspondent for the following:—Situated, as it is, along the bank of the Brisbane River, Woogaroo Asylum has suffered most severely from the floods. It is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,843 wordsNotwithstanding the large extent of water that inundated many parts of the Shire of Toowong, notably those adjoining the river road, Cemetery-road, the Milton Estate, and ...
Article : 896 wordsAs far as the Toombul Division is concerned, only that portion of it which is bounded by Breakfast Creek and the river has sustained any material damage, and it is not expected ...
Article : 977 wordsThe damage that has been done in the Rocklea district cannot at present be estimated, and probably its full extent will never be known. Since the waters subsided, the Rocky ...
Article : 1,171 wordsThe Enoggera Division ranks among those that escaped the ravages of the flood comparatively unharmed; and it scems almost frivolous to reckon the trifling losses sustained here ...
Article : 174 wordsThat portion of the Bulimba district within the boundaries of the Bulimba Divisional Board has escaped the effects of the flood remurkably well, the majority of the residents ...
Article : 632 wordsIn the Shire of Ithaca the district known as Rosalie suffered most; and in fact the flood ravages were almost conlined to this neighbourhood. A great portion of the ...
Article : 574 wordsIn the division of Indooroopilly, which extends from the Toowong Sports Ground to the Moggill Furry, the heaviest losers were the residents of the fow lying portions of the St. ...
Article : 366 wordsAs already reported the damage done in Coorparoo has been slight as compared with other districts. The lower portions, more especially in the vicinity of Stanley Bridge, have ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Mon 17 Mar 1890, Page 6
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