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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
280 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 14
Eight workmen were killed yesterday in a flooded, sewer. The amazing tragedy was caused by a mistake which was aggravated later by the refusal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A meteorological freak occurred at Claremont on Monday night when the heavy rain that fell was accompanied, in an area 20 yards wide and 50 yards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owing to exceptionally heavy seas caused by a violent storm the Mongolia was unable to enter Fremantle Harbor on Tuesday, and will have to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although the rivers inland are sti[?] swollen and will yet send a great volume of water into the Swan River, there is every likelihood now that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy rains in the Waikato and Waihi districts and in the Thames Valley have caused serious floods. The inundation at Te Aroha was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The flood waters are six feet high at Paeroa, and many houses have been submerged. Many Maori have left their habitations in a state of panic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A cyclone, accompanied blinding rain, hurled itself on the city and suburbs on Wednesday, and continued until late in the afternoon (says a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hawkesbury River rose last night with alarming rapidity at Windsor, the rise within two nights being approximately 21 feet. Many farms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An aged man named Roberts was drowned in three feet of water which covered the Pitt Town-road, near Windsor, on Thursday night during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An aged man named Roberts was drowned in three feet of water which covered the Pitt Town-road, near Windsor, on Thursday night during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A typhoon, the most severe for 18 years and continuing for three days, has visited the districts surrounding Tokio Rivers are overflowing and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A telegram from Siberia states that the Amur River district is seriously flooded. Forty villages surrounding Blagovestchensk have been washed out,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Jacksonville message says that a terrific tropical storm sweeping South and Central Florida has caused an estimated property damage, of £1,000,000,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The abnormal rise of water in Yangtre gorges has flooded vast areas right and left of the river banks. Thousands of people were drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four persons were killed in tropical storms which struck North and South Carolina to-day after working their way from the West Indies through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Villages in Kashmir and the northern parts of the Punjab are in grave danger as the result of the collapse of a mammoth barrier holding back millions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two miles of nermanent way of the railways to the suburbs of Pettone and Hutt were undermined bv a severe storm which struck "Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Port Au Prince (Haiti) says that a tropical storm visited the island on Friday. It is estimated that 200 persons are dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forged currency notes to the value of £10,000 were seized at Rangoon during the week-end. Apparently fearing arrest two Indians abandoned the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Panama message says that steamer W. S. M'Kenney, which was thought to have been lost in a storm off the coast of California, arrived…
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