Heavy gales and floods southeast Queensland. Wind lasted several hours at Ipswich (27th) and trees uprooted in all directions with some houses and cattle killed or maimed by falling branches. Great damage done to crops and railway embankments.

At Logan (27th), trees uprooted in all directions. At Warwick verandah coverings torn to ribbons. Lowest wharves covered by floods in Brisbane. Many dwelling houses flooded. Fences were blown in all directions, windows were smashed and verandahs carried away. Trees were blown out of the ground. Wind lifted house off its foundations and carried it 9 metres. Barometer down to 993 hPa at sea level in Brisbane. Floods destroyed the bridge at Ipswich.

Rockhampton Regional Council in partnership with the Queensland a…