Down the years: Townspeople dead or short of food after Mackay storm

 100 years agoUNHAPPY MACKAY: A steamer wireless message declares that Mackay is in ruins and that there has been large loss of life. A later message says that the town was completely submerged, it is feared that the mortality is appalling and that all sugar has been destroyed. The people are being rationed. Four vessels […]

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