DESTRUCTION BY STORM.
QUEENSLAND VISITATION. i SIX DEATHS REPORTED. : A. and X.Z. BRISBANE. Jan. 24. 1 Definite news from Mackay is anxiously £ awaited. It is now certain that the town 1 received the full force of the recent' 1 storm. The lighthouse at Flat Top was ! demolished. Practically all trains have ' stopped owing to washaways. The full ' force of the hurricane was felt at Rock- ' hampton, where great damage was done ] and tho town completely isolated, the , flood waters being inches above any j previous record, arid( still rising. A woman, two children, and three men have been diowned. The disturbance is now travelling west, and it is feared that Clermont will again be flooded. All coastal shipping is sheltering.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16757, 25 January 1918, Page 5
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