Wireless Works Best During a Storm at Sea
Mysterious as the transmission of wireless message seems to the average lay wind, there are phases connected with wireless telegraphy which…
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Floods & storms, 1914
57 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3
A Sudden Storm in Sydney. Man Killed by Lightning
A tornado struck Sydney shortly after 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, doing considerable damage, to property, and resulting in the death of an old man at Centennial Park…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in the Braidwood District
Reports from the district lying between the top of Clyde Mountain and Nelligen show that much damage was done by the rain. Roads have been washed out feet deep in a number. of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Friday’s Flood
The “Gundagai Independent” of Tuesday’s date says :— “The greatest that ever was,” is how Mr. Tom Woodbridge of South Gundagai,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone
Brisbaue, Friday.—Word was received late to-night that a cyclone bad swept over the Toowoomba district, leaving disaster in its wake. The damage is known to be very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone. Church Destroyed
Toowoomba (Q.), Saturday.—A violent cyclone swept over a portion of the Darling Downs between Warwick and Helidon yesterday afternoon. The storm at Cambooya lasted about a…
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Mr. Gregory, McGirr, M.L.A. has received the following letter from Mr. J. Davis, Director General o Public Works, re the granting. of assistance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lakes Storm. Kingston (Ontario), April 30
The cool schooner Jamieson, with a crow of seven, is believed to have foundered during the storm on the Great Lakes. A number of small craft have also been lost,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Costly Flood of Tar
An act of wantonness or carelessness resulted in a great deal of damage to many of the numerous pleasure craft moored in Careening Cove. The North Sydney Municipal Council’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Tuesday, May 26. BEFORE Mr. A. H. Gale, J.P.
Michael James McNamara, was charged with being drunk on the Harden Railway platform, and resisting Senior-constable McKenzie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violent Storm. Over 100 Lives Lost. St. John (New Brunswick), June 10
More than 100 lives have been lost as a result of a storm which swept over the Bay of Chaleurs, an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on Thursday and Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Thunderstorm. London, June 14
A thunderstorm, the severest that has occurred in London within the memory of living man, was the cause of loss of life and considerable damage. There was a tropical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm in Sydney. Much Damage
The severe cyclonic storm which worked up gradually at a late hour on Tuesday night, and reached its greatest force at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, has been responsible for much damage in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Paris Storm. Bodies Recovered. Paris
Four bodies of victims of the flood have been recovered in the Place Saint Philippe. A taxicab with the bodies of the chauffeur and passenger has been recovered in the Place Saint…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm-swept Paris. Extensive Damage. Paris, June 16
In the Paris storm four choir boys were engulfed and killed as they were leaving Saint Philippe's Church. A large force of firemen and labourers is engaged searching the debris. Ropes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris Storm. PARIS, June 16
The death roll of the great storm which dev[?]sted portions of the city as now been made up. No fewer than so fatalaities are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Effect of Storm
On the morning of the 16th instant, at 10 o'clock, a violent storm raged over Sydney and suburbs, and the roof of a house at No. 14 Garden-street, Marrickville, was brown off, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Floods Live Stook Swept Away. Kansas City, June 23
Scores of people have been driven from their home's wheat crops have been swept away, and live stock have been lost, to a result of heavy rains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasman in Cyclone. Batavia, July 11
The Royal Packet liner. Tasman, voyaging from "Australia, was caught in a eyelone for a period of 30 hours. The passengers were panic-stricken, and the vessel was only saved by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposal to Flood a Valley. London
The Pall Mall Gazette has received an official message stating that the Germans are trying to inundate the Seille Valley in order to delay the French advance from Altkirch…
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