Cyclone at Grenfell. Several Buildings Wrecked
A terrific cyclone, immediately followed by hail and rain, burst upon Grenfell on Monday evening last. Sheets of iron and portions of…
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Floods & storms, 1912
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The English Flood. London
Another 12 hours of rain has fallen at Norfolk. The relief fund at Norwich now stands at £3000. Food is being served out in rations. Electric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Umberumberka Water Works. Good Progress Being Made. a Tribute to Day Labor by Engineer. Flood Waters Throw Work. Back
The progress being made with the construction of the Umberumberka reservoir is such as to gratify visitors who periodically journey to the seene…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Receding at Last. the Norwich Floods. [Reuter's Message.] London
The damage caused to the city of Norwich by the flood is estimated at £100,000. The trees all round are infested with rats refuging from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Cables. [Reuter's Messages.] the Norwich Floods. London
The Norwich Flood Fund has reached £13,000. The president of the Chamber of Commerce estimates the loss to tradesmen at £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Floods. Three-quarters of a Million Damage. Forty Lives Lost. [Reuter's Message.]
A grant, storm burst over Pittsburg yesterday with overwhelming force. The death roll was 40, and damago to the extent, of £750,000 was done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in America. Thirty-six Lives Lost. Miners Warned in Nick of Time. [Reuter's Message.] Pittsburg
Torrential rains are reported throughout Ponnsylvannia, and the floods have drowned 30 people, whose bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Norwich Floods. London
A number of unsafo buildings have been pulled down at Norwich, and a hundred buil[?]iugs condemned as unfit for habitation. Queen Alexandra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Adelaide Storm. Damage by Lightning and Rain. Adelaide
A monsoonal disturbance visited Adelaide and suburbs last evening, and was responsible for considerable damage. There was severe lightning,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Floods. Thirty-four Thousand Drowned. [Reuters Message.] Shanghai, Thuesday
Letters from Wen Chow state that floods occurred on August 20 of the proportion of a tidal wave. Chun Chow was overwhelmed by the Tsingtien River, and ten thousand were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods and Gales. Loss of Life and Property. Melbourne
Reports of disastrous floods, attended in two cases by loss of life, and generally by widespread destruction of stock and other property, have been flowing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in South Australia. the Torrens Overflows
The stormy weather on Friday and saturday, following upon the previous rains, caused the River Torrens, S.A., to rise quickly, with the result that a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Fatalities
A tragedy is reported from Myrtleford on the Ovens River, in Victoria. Thomas Quinlivan, a settler, 61 years of age, was picking his way on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →High Flood Mark at Molesworth
The Goulburn and Yea Rivers are at high flood at Molesworth. The water is washing over the floor at Murphy's Hotel, and at the Republican…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods Subsiding. Melbourne
Reassuring information is to hand in most instances that the Victorian floods are subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murray Still Rising. Rising Waters at Albury. Some Flood Incidents. Albury
Since Monday, there has been a rapid rise of 7ft. in the Murray River but stock-owners and other residents in the low-lying parts received timely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Victoria. One Man Drowned. Swollen Rivers and Swirling Torrents
Owing to the heavy rains a large number of rivers in the north-eastern parts of Victoria were in flood on Monday (says the "Argus" of September…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in Victoria. One Man Drowned. Swollen Rivers and Swirling Torrents
Owing to the heavy rains a large number of rivers in the north-eastern parts of Victoria were in flood on Monday (says the "Argus" of September…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Gale Comet. Visible to Naked Eye
Sufficient data has now been secured from which a preliminary investigation can be made regarding the movement of the comet Gale, 1912, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Conference. Thrashing the Matter Out After the Storm. Straight and Strong Talk by Labor Aldermen. B.l.f. Bows Its Diminished Head
Members of the Broken Hill City Council met the executive officers, of the B.L.F. at the Council Chamber on Saturday night last to discuss…
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