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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Sydney Swept. by Terrific Thunderstorm. Serious Damage Done

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mondaay.—A violent storm passed over the city yesterday accompained by vivid lighting. St. Matthias Angliacan Church was…

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A Terrific Storm

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

A terrific storm, accompanied by deafening thunder, vivid lightning, blinding rain and cyclonic wind, occurred in Sydney on Sunday. There…

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A Terrific Storm. Sydney Shops Flooded. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 5

A terrific thunderstorm passed over the city yesterday afternoon, and caused cons derable damage. In all, 416 points of rain fell…

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A Terrific Thunderstorm. Serious Damage Done

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 2

A Tiolent storm passed over Sydney on Sunday, accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy rain. St. Mathiss' Church at Woollahre was…

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Sydney Flooded. More Damage Wrought. Haymarket Under Water

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Another terrific thunderstorm occurred in the city yesterday, and considerable damage was wrought…

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No Sign of Yielding. Mines Flooded. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 5

The strike situation is unchanged, and so far there is no sign of either side yielding. The strike is slowly tightening its…

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South Australian Cyclone

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A violent cyelonic distu[?]ance is reported from Adelaide to have occurred early on Saturday morning along the South Australian coast, the…

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Disastrous Gales. Wrecks and Loss of Life. Vancouver, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1912 · page 3

A gale is raging on the coast of Newfoundland. The steamer Erna, from Glasgow to St. John's, is overdue, and is…

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Swept by a Gale. Ships Driven and Wrecked. On West Australian Coast

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1912 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A terrific gale, with, nine inches of rain, swept the North-West coast of Western Australia last week…

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Remarkable Storm. Buildings "Struck." Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 5

One of the most remarkable storms ever experienced in Sydney occurred last night, the lightning being incessant, while the rain fell in a deluge…

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Terrific Storm in Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—A storm last night equalled, if not excelled, anything of a like experienced for years past. Incessant lightning flashes were of every…

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"Cycling on Good Friday." A Storm in a Tea Cup

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1912 · page 4

At the South Grafton Council meeting a fortnight ago last Wednesday, Ald. Reid moved that the application of the South Grafton Bicycle…

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Wrecked in Gale

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 3

A message received in Perth, (W.A.), on Tuesday last, from Whim Creek, states that during the heavy storm the captains, of the lighters hung on as long as…

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Detecting Storms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 April 1912 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The Academy of Science in Paris has had submitted to it a contrivance by which the approach of storms may be detected by wireless at…

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Mississippi Floods

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 11 April 1912 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Floods still continue in the Mississippi area. If the dykes in Arkansas, Mississippi State and Northern Louisiana hold for another day…

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A Terrific Storm. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 April 1912 · page 3

A terrific storm occurred at Zeehan (Tas.) Many people received electric shocks and one flash of lightning…

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Blizzards and Flood. Cottages Isolated

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 19 April 1912 · page 3

From nearly every part of the country come reports of damage dose by blizzards and floods (said "Lloyd's News" on January 14). Fierce…

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More Floods. 200 Persons Drowned. VANCOUVER

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 3

Further great floods have occurred in the Mississippi Valley. A report states that 200 persons were drowned by the bursting of the…

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Mississippi Floods. Fresh Disasters. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 6 May 1912 · page 4

Flo[?] is have caused two breaks on the Missisys,ppi near Louisiana, and the situation is serious. The general belief is that the levee…

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American Flood Disaster

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 May 1912 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The conditions on the Lower Mississippi caused by the flood are appalling. Over 100,000 persons are reported to be homeless. The…

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