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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
237 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 12
A New Orleans message says that the impact of the swollen Mississippi now bears very heavily on the Bayon Des Glaisses. A break in the levee is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Orleans message says that the flood waters have clipped off a great section of the Bayou Des Glaises levee at Bordelonville, in the heart of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Orleans message says that the impact of the swollen Mississippi now bears very heavily on the Bayou Des Glaisses. A break in the levee is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The water is surging into the countryside through the honeycombed levee near Big End at a rate estimated by engineers at well over seven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A New Orleans message says that practically the entire length of [?] miles of the levee near the Bayou Des Glaises is now threatened, the breaks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message from New Orleans states that coastguards have rescued over 3000 refugees who were in a desperate plight, huddled together on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Honolulu message says that houses were undermined,,live stock drowned, and rice fields damaged by a deluge of rain in the south-eastern sections of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A New Orleans message says that another barrier against the floods has collapsed, marooning 500 inhabitants at Melville, who rushed to the tops of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Wilson (Wyoming) States that at least eight persons were drowned when a natural dam across She Gros, Ventre River burst. A wall…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from New Orleans says that the steamer Birmingham, carrying convicts from the State prison, was trapped in the current from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Orleans message says that the levee at M'Crea on the Atchafalaya River, despite the desperate efforts which had been made to save…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Orleans message says that Ar. H. C. Hoover, United. States Sectary of Commerce, who is in charge [?] flood relief operations, in a plea to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Orleans message says that residents of New Siberia, on the east bank of the Bayou Teche, who up to this time had scorned the thought that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A message from Ashland (Kentucky) stales that 20 persons were killed following a deluge of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Bristol (Virginia. U.S.A.), says that 12 persons are known to have been killed, over a score are missing, and many injured,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Baton Rouge (Louisiana) says that Mr. Earl Kilpatrick, superintendent of rehabilitation for the Rod Cross in the flooded areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A cyclone struck Holland and Belgium and passed into Germany. The centre of the storm struck, the villages of Eibergen and Neede, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eyewitnesses residing in the cyclone area describing the approach of the storm which recently wrecked four villages, state that it looked like…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Louisville message says that floods followed by disastrous storms in the mountains of eastern Kentucky last week-end resulted in upwards of 100…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message dispatched at 12.50 a.m. states that there was a big silence after Chamberlain had been sighted over Newfoundland. Then, came a…
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