Terrible Lightning Storms. LONDON, Sunday Afternoon
Parts of Great Britain have been visited by fearful lightning storms. As a battalion of the Cheshire Regiment was marching from Limerick to…
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Floods & storms, 1899
84 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 5
Terrible Lightning Storms. LONDON, Sunday Afternoon
Parts of Great Britain have been visited by fearful lightning storms. As a battalion of the Cheshire Regiment was marching from Limerick to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rains in Victoria. A Mine Flooded. MELBOURNE
Heavy rains have fallen in many parts of the colony. A good deal of carnage has been done in places. Continuous rain flooded the Lord Brassey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Governor's Visit. And the Extra Mayoral Allowance. Stonewall and Storm at the Adjourned Meeting. A Policeman in Attendance
THE Broken Hill Municipal Council has entered upon another season of excitement, and it is promised that what has taken place in the past will be as nothing to what is to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storm in the West Indies. Thousands of People Killed. [Reuter's Message.] London
Tho American Governor on the island of Puerto Rico, in the West Indies, reports that awful disaster was caused there throughout the whole of the island…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. [REUTER's MESSAGES.] The Storm in the west ladies. LONDON
Further particulars of the destruction by the hurricane in the West Indies state that the damage caused to property nt Pointe-a-Pitre, tho chief town of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Cuba. LONDON
Disastrous floods have occurred at 'Santiago de Cuba. A train, while crossing a bridge, fell into the river and 50 persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Teeth Op the Storm. [By Telegraph.] Auckland, Wednesday Afternoon
The ketch Envy, from Wellington, which was believed to have foundered, has arrived here. Captain Champion reports that during the storm the ketch was constantly swept by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Exciting Voyage, Battling with, a Gale. [By Tbleobaph] Sydniy
The steamer Julia Percy, fears for whose safety wore entertained, arrived at Newcastle on Saturday night. The captain reports that he left Brisbane last Monday and proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Australian Eleven Match Against Lancashire Heavy Rain. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon
The return cricket match between the Australians and Lancashire was commenced at Liverpool to-day. Heavy rain fell this morning, and a start was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mine Flooded. Six Hundred Men Killed, [Reuter's Message.] London
A terrible mining disaster is reported from Japan. While work Was proceeding as usual in one of the copper mines at Shikoku,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further Gold Seized. Horses Lost in a Gale. London
The Boers in the Transvaal continue to "commandeer" the gold raised from the Rand mines. They have, according to a cable received to-day, now seized a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Darjeeling Earthquake. Terrible Destruction by Floods and Land Slides, Over 300 Lives Lost
On September 27 a cable message was published in these columns announcing that a terrible earthquake, accompanied by heavy rain and land slides, had occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Telegraph Lines. Damage by Wind and Hall Storms
BROKEN HILL has been again almost isolated from the world to day. The only telegraphic connection this morning was via Adelaide, and business on that line was congested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Peculiar Storm
Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a peculiar hailstorm broke over Wilcannia. The morning opened fine, with a light breeze, but as the day wore on the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storm in Victoria
A delayed message from Melbourne states that a heavy thunderstorm passed over Victoria on Monday. At Rirchip houses were blown down, and Wycheproof, St. Arnaud,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Troopship in a Gale. London, Monday Afternoon
The troopship Rapid, from South hampton to South Africa, encountered a hurricane near Holyhead, during which 200 horses were killed. The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone at Newcastle. Three Hundred Buildings Destroyed. Collapse of a School. A Pup Killed
A fearful cyclone paned over Newcastle yesterday afternoon. No less than 300 buildings were destroyed. At Adamstown the Roman Catholic School collapsedand a few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:— Cyclone at Newcastle. Three Hundred Buildings Destroyed. Collapse of a School. A Pupil Killed
A fearful cyclone panned over Newcastle yesterday afternoon. No less than 300 buildings were destroyed. At Adamstown the Roman Catholic School collapsed,and a few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Storms. Damage Way Back
THE 6th of Novembar will long be remembered by those at Terawynia homestead on that date, says the Wilcannia Grazier, when it was visited by a severe burricane,…
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