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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
199 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 10
Phenomenal rain tell in the Hawkes Bay, Manawatu. Wairarapa, Marlborough, and Canterbury districts over the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large areas of the country are flooded following 15 hours' continuous rain during the week-end. Severe damage is reported in the agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reuter's Paris correspondent reports:— A gale in the English Channel coincided with a particularly high tide at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A f[?]ll of four inches of rain within an hour is reported from Garg[?]tt, in the Mackay district. Cyclonic winds blew down trees and [?] the sug[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The deluge of rain has stopped shearing operations in the Charleville and Augathella districts. All the creeks and rivers are rising fast. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports arriving reveal serious floods. The Warrego River is 5ft. over the railway line at Thallon. The river is still rising and trains are blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three inches of rain fell at Dubbo and in other western district towns last night and caused heavy floods. The streets were like rivers and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reports arriving reveal serious floods. The Warrego River is 5ft. over the railway line at Thallon. The river is still rising and trains are blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A cyclone struck Undera, seven miles from Tatura, completely wrecking the residence of Mr. J. Tyndall. Mrs. Tyndall was struck by a piece of timber…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Tasmania has received heavy rain. The Mersey Valley and the country around Deloraine is under water. Sheep and cattle have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods have again occurred in the northern portions of Victoria, most damage being done at Ballarat and in the Wimmera districts. The railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain has fallen practically throughout the whole of Queensland over the past few days. In certain parts of Western Queensland the downpour has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Monday moriyng one of the most severe thunderstorms experienced in the district occurred at Bowmans. Frederick Charles Smart was struck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A washaway on the railway line nine miles this side of Mannahill and a hot box on one of the carriages was responsible for the oxpress running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to a heavy storm in the metropolis on Sunday night many business establishments particularly in Fortitude Valley, suffered heavy loss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dubbo district experienced another deluge yesterday when two inches of rain fell in two hours. The streets of the town were again flooded and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Nyngan further severe storms with a lot of rain were experienced last night. Landholders now fear floods. There is a stretch of nine miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports from the country state that many rivers are rising. The Namoi River at Gunnedah reached the flood level. The Murray River is over a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During a thunderstorm at Booleroo Centre on Wednesday three horses belonging to Mr. Frank Miller were killed by lightning (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A vivid account of the storm in whish the Douglas Mawson was supposed to have been wrecked, and an interesting theory oil-the story of the…
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