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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
93 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 5
There is danger of another big flood at Louth. The river is rising about a foot per day, and was yesterday 26ft.above summer level. The stations along the river are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One hundred people have been drowned and enormous damage done by the floods in Massowah, a seaport of Abyssinia, now occupied by Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy rains are reported m the Rock-hampton district. Many rivers are in flood, and a large amount of traffic has been suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is believed that 1,000 persons have been drowned by terrible floods in China…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The town of Johnston, in Pennsylvania, has been visited by another disastrousflood. The superfluous waters flowed down the river with tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flood waters which swamped the town of Johnstown and caused a wholesale destruction of bridges and property are now subsiding. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Up to 1 o'clock to-day there was no appearance at the Heads of the P. and O. Company's R. M S Valetta, which was overdue from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Up to 1 o'clock to-day there was no appearance at the Heads of the P. and O. Company's R. M. S. Valetts, which was overdue from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received of extensive and devastating floods in Arizona, a south-western State of the United States. The township of Yuma was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires are again sweeping over the colony. Saturday and Sunday were bofling hot days. The bush fires caused interruptions of the telegraph lines in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy rains fell in the city and suburbs this morning, and portions of Waterloo, Marrickville, and Paramatta-street were flooded. The trams were blocked, owing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The thriving township of Wyndham, situated on Cambridge Gulf, was visited, by a cyclone of great violence on Sunday. The hospital, courthouse, hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous floods are reported from the western districts of the colony. The Barcoo is in flood as high as last year. Several families have only been rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY before 9 o'clock this morning there was terrific crash of thunder, which shook many of the weatherboard dwellings in Broken Hill; and it was a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The one-masted ship Craigeburn, outward bound for Wellington, N.Z., while being towed clear of the Heads this morning, started the tow rope, and immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible storms have taken place in Dakota, U.S.A. Large tracts have been devastated, crops destroyed, and cattle and horses killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous thunderstorms have taken place in Austria. In Vienna (the capital, 12 people have been killed, and many animals have also been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest intelligence from Barcaldine is to the effect that a number of unionists have been supplied with medicine and attendance during the last month. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Gympie surface flood waters have broken from the old Columbia shaft right through into the Glanmire Great Eastern mines, whereby 300 miners have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violent thunderstorms, accompanied by vivid lightning, have taken place in Berlin. A company of soldiers, who were drinking at the time, were…
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