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Blue Mountains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1904

5 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Any Port in a Storm

The Mountaineer · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 7

Miss Flora Ford was on her way from Boston to her home is' Philadelphia. Some people whom she knew had come with her as far as New York and had…

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The Gale

The Mountaineer · Friday 15 July 1904 · page 7

The gale which raged during the latter end of last week and the beginning of this was unprecedented in the history of the Blue Mountains. The…

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The Gale. Railway Shed Unroofed. Trails Delayed

The Mountaineer · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 7

The gale, which blew with terrific violence this week over the coastal area in the vicinity of the metropolis appears to have raged with even greater…

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The Gale. a Record Blow

The Mountaineer · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 5

Never in the history of Katoomba has such a severe wind and dust storm swept over the district as on Wednesday last. A strong wind blew from…

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Grilled by Lightning Result of a Storm

The Mountaineer · Friday 18 November 1904 · page 5

A terrific rain and thunderstorm raged in New York on the night of Sept. 15, till early the next morning. Wind blew furiously at the rate of about eighty miles…

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