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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
177 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 9
The Clydach Vale (Wales) strikers set fire to a slaughter house yesterday and dragged a cart belonging to a butcher named Jones to the top of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Cairns correspondent of the "S. M. Herald" on March 22 sent details of the North Queensland cyclone (briefly wired to "The Miner"). He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An electrical storm, accompanied by a cyclonic wind, wrecked many public and private buildings in Philadelphia, U.S.A., yesterday, unroofed churches,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ship's report states:— "The Terra Nova proceeded cast surveying the ice barrier to 170 west longitude. The barrier to this point…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday 150 men started out to repair the railway lines damaged by the floods at Cairns. A few lines are now clear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cyclone swept over Ok[?]homa to-day. In one town a family was lifted out of a demolished house on their beds, and seriously injured. A guest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several quarters of the city of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, were flooded yesterday by a rainstorm. Numerous buildings collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great storm occurred iu the Black Sea to-day. Many wrecks are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The work of repairing the Cairns railway is proceeding satisfactorily in the circumstances, as the rain in the ranges is greatly retarding progress. On…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An unexpected visitor to this port this morning was the steamer Ashburton from the east, bound for the United Kingdom. On the passage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An unexpected visitor to this port this morning was the steamer Ashburton from the east, bound for the United Kingdom. On the passage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Imagine (says the "Telegraph" of May 10) an aeroplane so safe and steady that the pilot of it could lash his rudder and take off his goggles and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sydney correspondent of the "Age" wired on May 14:— The full force of the southerly gale which swept along the coast on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rev. Dr. Sharp, Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, who arrived on Saturday (wired the Brisbane correspondent of the "Age" on May 21) by the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Union Company's steamer A[?]rangi, which arrived on Tuesday (says the "S.M. Herald" of May 25) from "Wellington, brought news that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Violent thunderstorms have occurred in the south of Germany. The River Paimar has overflowed its banks near Stuttgart and swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tropical heat in England has culminated in a series of thunderstorms. In some places the streets have been flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An aviator named Taddeoli was monoplaning at Lausanne (Switzerland) yesterday, when he was caught in a gale at a height of 2000 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hurricane conditions prevailed throughout last night at Warrnambool. A fierce gale caused much damage to the steamer Oonah while crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hobart correspondent of the "S.M. Herald" on June 5, wired:— Arthur Corbett, 18, lost his life by drowning on Sunday at Queenstown…
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