A Severe Cyclone. London, September 2
A recent cyclone at Mafeking wrecked a field hospital containing 150 patients. The rushing water swept away the kits. Several natives…
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Floods & storms, 1900
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Fearful Storm in America. Towns Wrecked in Texas. 5000 Lives Lost. A Huge Tidal Wave. Damage over 15,000,000 Dollars. [Reuter's Messages.] London
The catastrophe in the southern portion of the United States has been fraught with awful consequences. First a hurricane wrought much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Texas Storm. LONDON
The recent hurricane in Texas, U.S.A., destroyed the seaside resort of High Island. Four hundred bodies, mostly of visitors, have since been found in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Storm at Cape Nome. [By Telegraph.] Auckland
San Francisco newspapers which arrived here yesterday contain reports to the effect that the new mining camp on the Alaskan Shore at Cape Nome has been visited by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wful Cyclone in Texas. The Gaivestoa Horror
A THRRIBLE cyclone (as cabled at the time swept over Texas on the night of Saturday September 8, causing appalling lost or life and incalculable damage to property. While…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By TELEGRAPH.[Violent Storm at Walhalla. 'A Tree Blows on a House. Two Children Killed. MELBOURNE
A violent storm was experienced at Walhalla yesterday. Some trees were blown on the house of Dominic Torre, and William Torre, aged 9, and Dominic, an infant, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Newfoundland. Seven Hundred Fisherfolk Perish. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon
Seven hundred Newfoundland fisherfolk perished in a storm following that which wrecked Galveston, in Texas. The news has just been received. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone at Rockhampton
A CYCLONE broke over Rockhampton (Q.) on Wednesday afternoon, and a deal of minor damage was done. The spire of the Catholic Cathedral was struck by lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Warm Engagement. De Wet in a Hot Corner. Saved by a Rain Storm. London
Details of the Rensburg Drift affair show that as General De Wet, with his force of Boers, was crossing the Vaal River, Colonel De Lisle's gun's from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather. Last Night's Storm
LAST night a thunderstorm of exceptional violence broke over the town; and as it was quite unexpected it caused a good deal of inconvenience, particularly to the men on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in France. Serious Devastations
THE valley of the lower Rhone, from Montelimart down to Arles, has been devastated during the first days of October by floods of almost unexampled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Rain in Sydney. SYDNEY
Heavy rain has been falling in and about Sydney since Saturday. All the lowlying suburbs are submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms in Queensland. BRISBANE
Heavy rains: and thunderstorms are reported from various parts bf Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm in Newcastle Harbor. a Barque Capsized. Narrow Escapes. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The barqus Lodhore, anchored in Newcastle Harbor, capsized during a southerly squall yesterday. The crew of 13 men were aboard at the time. The cook was engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Welsh Colliery Flooded
A NEATH correspondent telegraphed to the London Press. Association on Oct. 25 that five men lost their lives by the flooding of a colliery near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Storm in Adelaide. Considerable Damage. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Yesterday afternoon a severe squall, lasting half an hour, broke over the city and suburbs, doing considerable damage to the gardens and causing great inconvenience to shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm at Wirrabara. Effects of the Lightning [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
Yesterday morning a severe thunderstorm passed over Wirrabara. A farmer named Wagner had all his sheds and haystacks destroyed by lightning, which strick the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tiber in Flood. LONDON, Monday Afternoon
The River Tiber, in Italy, is badly Aboded just now. Crossing a bridge in Rome yesterday the King had a narrow escape from the effects of a landslip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fear[?] Storm, at Cootamundra. The Severest Known. SYDNEY
Mr. H. C. Russell, Government Astronomer, is in receipt of a telegram from Cootamundra with reference to a tornado that scoured the district on Monday. The storm is described…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Series of Fires in Dubbo. Sparks Carried by the Storm. SYDNEY
At Utley's Centennial Sawmills, Dubbo, the offices were destroyed yesterday, with all their contents. The Occidental Hotel, a quarter of a mile away, caught fire…
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