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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 20
A message from the Hook of Holland states that nine more persons have been rescued from the steamer Soerkarta, which was stranded near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tweed has narrowly escaped a repetition of the disastrous flood of 1921. The river continued to rise slowly until Thursday, when the water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cyclone swept over Cloncurry (Q) on Saturday night. It lasted only five minutes, but in that short period a great deal of damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The stranding on the Hook of Holland during a blinding snowstorm and subsequent loss of the Rotterdam Lloyd steamer Soerkarta, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood rains on the North Coast have caused the Richmond River to overflow its banks. The stream on Thursday was 30 feet above, normal, and unless…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →According to reports received by the Weather Bureau, torrential rain commenced to fall at Lismore yesterday morning, and has resulted in a rise…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Further heavy rains fell yesterday on the North Coast Lismore receiving nearly five and a half inches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chicago, Thursday.—By tornado, fire, and flood, more than 1000 persons are reported to have perished in the United States and South America on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For the second time within a few days, Murwillumbah narrowly escaped a serious flood on Tuesday night. Early in the afternoon Tyalgum,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cape and Natal Express plunged into the river beyond Haris Hill last night, when an engine and a third-class coach were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All parts of South Africa and Rhodesia have experienced phenomenal rains for March. Crops have been damaged and a dam burst at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cape and Natal Express plunged into the river beyond Harts Hill last night. When an engine and a third-class coach were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →All parts of South Africa and Rhodesia have experienced phenomenal rains for March. Crops have been damaged, and a dam burst at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy showers were experienced at places on the Central and North Coasts on Monday morning under the influence of a tropical disturbance,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary state of affairs is reported at Somkele, Zululand, where a number of settlers have been marooned for some days, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Capetown, Wednesday.—An extraordinary state of affairs is reported from Somkle, Zululand, where a number of settlers were marooned for some days,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports received by the Railway Department from Cairns yesterday indicate floods are dislocating traffic in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canterbury was swept by a great southerly storm on Thursday. Reports from country districts indicate that in some place the position is serious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early in the afternoon the R33, which had ben swept from her moorings at Pulham in the morning, was sighted off the Dutch coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Airship R33, which was being prepared for important experiments, broke from her moorings-mast at Pulham during a gale. Later it was seen…
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