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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

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Floods and Tornadoes. Destruction in Indiana. Many Lives Lost. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 April 1922 · page 5

Fifty are dead and hundreds injured as a result of floods and cloudbursts in Western Indiana, and through Mississippi Valley. Huge losses of livestock are…

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Houses on the Move. Getting Out of Flood Reach. Grafton Contractor's New Job

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 4

Residents and business people are recognising the possibilities of damage by flood these' days, and elevating or moving their premises above the dangermark…

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News of the World. Disastrous Floods. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 5

A New Orleans message says twenty are dead and millions of acres of cotton lends are inundated by floods, following eight inches of rain in two days in the…

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Risk of Flood. Great Marlow Embankment. Department and Councils. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 May 1922 · page 3

The Copmanhurst Shire Council is particularly concerned about the Great Marlow flood embankment. Part of this 20-feet embankment was washed away in…

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Telegrams. Caught in a Storm. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 May 1922 · page 5

With portions of her bridge missing, and generally bearing testimony of the violence, of a typhoon encountered on the run to Auckland from Panama, the…

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Flood Damage. Promise of Assistance. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 May 1922 · page 5

The Minister for Works, Sir Thomas Henley, promised a deputation from the Grafton and Copmanhurst Councils who asked for assistance in repairing damage…

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Football. Heavy Rain in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 1

Heavy rain fell almost constantly during the playing of the Rugby League matches yesterday. Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney…

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State Politics. Cabinet Storm Centre. Mr. Farrar's Portfolio. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 5

An evening paper says undoubtedly an effort is being made to oust Mr. Farrar from the Cabinet, as the Progressive section still smarts under a sense of…

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Another Sea Tragedy. a Steamer Ashore in a Gale. Ran on to New Zealand Coast. Number of Crew Drowned. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 5

A wireless received at Auckland states that the steamer Wiltshire is ashore and great danger from a strong gale that is blowing. The vessel is bound from…

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Thrilling Experiences. Wrecked in a Gale. Sinking of the Oakland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 6

It is hardly possible for any man to have had a more thrilling experience at sea than Mr. Thomas. E. Gaites, a monumental mason, who carried on his…

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Quest in a Storm. Driven 197 Miles by Wind. Visit to Elephant Island. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 5

Commander Prank Wild, who in in charge of the Quest, continues his story: Free of the ice, we made for Elephant Island, intending to land and kill sea…

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"Free Advice." a Departmental Discovery. "So-called Flood Damages."

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 June 1922 · page 4

The Under-Secretary, Department of Local Government, wrote to the Orara Shire Council meeting yesterday, stating that the Chief Engineer had reported to…

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Fifty Deaths. Storm Sweeps New York. Immense Damage to Property. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1922 · page 5

At New York a thunderstorm swept over the city and environs. Fifty are dead. A Ferris wheel was blown from its…

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New York's Storm. Deaths Now Total Sixty. Bungalow Lifted Bodily. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 5

Further particulars of the storm which passed over New York show that daybreak found thousands of parents and relatives keeping watch at the docks and…

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Flooded the Yser. Man Who Stopped Germans

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1922 · page 5

A Brussels lock-keeper named Cogghe who flooded the Yser during the German advance into Belgium, has died, aged 74. He was lock-keeping till the last. He…

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Ten Persons Killed. Cyclone in Wisconsin. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 June 1922 · page 3

Ten persons were killed in a cyclone in Wisconsin. "The damage to property is estimated at one mililon sterling…

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Devastating Floods. Hundreds Reported Drowned. Washington

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 5

Cables to the lied Cross announce that, hundreds were drowned by floods which swept san Salvador and reduced the city to ruins on June 14…

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Destructive Storm in Canada. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 June 1922 · page 3

Terrific cyclones have swept the western Canadian prairies from Calgary to Winnipeg. The ga[?]e reached the height of its fury at Port Agea prairie,…

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Cyclonic Storm at Adelaide. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 4

A willy-willy swept over North Adelaide to-day, and fences and roofs were blown away, £4000 worth of damage being done in three minutes…

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Bulkhead Bursts. Three Laborers Smothered by Flood of Bulk Wheat. Shocking Tragedy on Ship. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 July 1922 · page 5

A frightful accident occurred on board the Federal and Shire liner Norfolk, at White Bay, to-night. Three men are dead and five were…

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