Cable News. Disastrous Floods. St. Louis, April 2
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 4
Floods now being experienced in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky are the worst ever recorded. The property losses amount to millions of dollars. Rain is falling continuously,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Floods. Durnand (Wisconsin). April 3
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 2
An ice bridge formed on the Chippowa River, and the floods behind it destroyed a large section of the Chicago-St. Paul-Milwaukee railroad. Many homes are being threatened with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scientific Notes. Absorbing Floods
The Burrowa News · Friday 5 April 1912 · page 5
Absorbing flood water by storage wells is a plan French engineers are considering. Much damage was formerly dope by inundations on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in America. Cairo (Illinois), April 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 2
The city is surrounded by water, and is without trains and street cars. The Mississippi tore a large rent in the protecting embankment, and 500 men, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Floods. San Francisco, April 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4
The departure for Australasia of the Union Steamship Company's mailboat Tahiti has been delayed owing to the non-arrival of the mails The floods have disorganised the overland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Floods. New Orleans, April 13
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1912 · page 4
The west levee holding back the Mississippi to its channel broke near Atlanta, and 1000 square miles of country have been flooded, and thousands of families have been rendered homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm in Sydney. Damage in the Suburbs
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 April 1912 · page 2
A fierce southerly gale necompained with blinding rain squalls, blew iln Sydney throughout Monday. The wind at, times reached hurricane force, and many suburban residents Who had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Floods. Torenas (Louisiana), May 2
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 May 1912 · page 4
The levees guarding the country towns along the banks of the Mississippi have broken in several places, and, as the river is rising rapidly, the wholesale destruction of farms and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in America. New Orleans, May 3
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 May 1912 · page 4
The flood conditions in the lower Mississippi are appalling. Over 100,000 persons are reported to be homeless. Steamboats have picked up hundreds of marooned persons. Preparations are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The “Gundagai” Flood
The Yass Courier · Monday 13 May 1912 · page 2
The âGundagai Independent â publishes some interesting happenings of the flood of 52, related by Mrs. Foster, Jackalass. In her narrative,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain in Sydney
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 2
SYDNEY, Friday.—Heavy rain fell in the city and suburbs last night. A heavy sea is running, and the conditions on the coast are becoming worse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WINNIPEG, Monday. FLOODS
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 2
The Manitoba rivers are flooded, and dozens of villages are submerged. In the city of Moos[?] Jarvey the power plant has been destroyed, and the city is in darkness. The reservoir dam burst,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought or Deluge. What Scientists Say
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 June 1912 · page 4
The Commonwealth Meteorologist (Mr. Hunt) furnished the following interesting memorandum concerning long-distance weather forecasting:— unofficial predictions of impending droughts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods at Broken Hill
The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 June 1912 · page 2
A wire from Broken Hill on Sunday, states :—“The drought has broken with a vengeance, so far as the Broken Hill district is concerned. Light rain started…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Big Storm
The Yass Courier · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 2
Early on Friday afternoon a storm of unusual severity passed over the town, banks of clouds gathering for some time, causing business people to light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Santiago De Chili, Wednesday. Destructive Storms in South America
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 June 1912 · page 2
Fresh storms in the Cordillera Andes have seriously damaged property in Chili and the Argentine railway, interrupting traffic for two months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Continuous Electric Storm. Pittsburg
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 July 1912 · page 4
Abnormal weather still continues in the Eastern States, and many persons were killed by lightning during a continuous electrical storm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Storm
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 July 1912 · page 2
The storm has passed away to the east. A southerly gale is raging in New Zealand. Heavy rains have fallen, resulting in floods in various parts of the Dominion. The Moeraki, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Gale. Manly Service Suspended
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 July 1912 · page 4
The whole of the coast line was storm-swept on Tuesday, the seas being the heaviest for 20 years. Very few of the boats sheltering attempted to continue their voyages. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gales on the Coast. Shipping Casualties
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 2
After a brief respite; gales of considerable fury swept the coastline on Thursday. The storms were attended be very heavy rain squalls and high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →