Ten Deaths. the Cyclone in Sydney. Extensive Damage in Suburbs. Bulahdelah's Record Flood
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 4
Ten deaths have been reported in Sydney as a result of the cyclone in Sydney on Monday night and yesterday. Three of these were killed by live electric wires brought down by the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Royal Show. Heavy Losses Through Storm. Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
The losses of the Royal Agricultural Society, as a result of the rain is unofficially estimated at more than £25,000. The ring events were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Passing. Heavy Seas Moderating. Restoring Telegraphic Communications. Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
The State Meteorologist stated to-day that the storm was easing, off, the centre of the cyclone being now about Lord Howe Island, and moving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi River. Destructive Floods. New York, April 18
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
Floods have now inundated extensive fertile areas bordering the Mississippi River, and 22,000 inhabitants are refugees. Rall traffic in many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wollombi Flood
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
Only light rain fell last night and this morning over the big Cockfighter watershed. It was raining lightly till about 10 a.m. at Wollombi…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lowlands Flooded
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
The low lands from Bolwarra to Largs are practically Inundated. Damage to crops and pastures Is extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dungog Flooded. Dungog
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
Dungog is experiencing another flood to-day as a result of the incessant rain yesterday and last night. All low-lying lands is submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
A terrific storm struck Sydney on Monday night. Fives lives were lost, house and shops unroofed signboards wrecked, houses flooded and vachts swamped. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Easter Storms
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 4
After many days of torrential rains and heavy gales, which blew with hurricane force at times, reaching a velocity of more than a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Easter Cyclone Floods and Loss of Life
Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Commencing on Thursday with heavy rain on the coast, and light falls in the north-western districts, the storm which caused such damage during Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Easing Off
Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
The State Meteorologist stated today that the storm was easing off, the centre of the cyclone being now about Lord Howe Island and moving steadily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale Moderating. Fine Weather Returns. Floods on South Coast
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Rough seas were reported on many parts of the coast yesterday, but they were rapidly moderating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms and Floods. Desolation in U.S.A. Over 100 Lives Lost. New York. April 20
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 5
The toll of life and destruction of property by storms and floods in the Mississippi Basin and the south and central portion of the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Launch Disaster Wrecked in Cyclone. Eight Bodies Recovered; Three Missing
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 6
The fatalities in Sydney and suburbs attributable to the storm now number 16. The bodies of eight persons who were drowned in a launch disaster in Botany Bay have been recovered. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Damage by Flood. Water Board's Works, Between £4000 and £6000
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 3
The chief engineer of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board reported at tho weekly meeting that the water supply had not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →River Falling. Flood Waters Stationary. Brighter Weather Conditions
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 4
To-day there was a most welcome return to fine weather, the day being bright and warm. A period of such conditions will give the flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in America. Red Cross Appeal Washington, April 19
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 5
The Red Cross is issuing an appeal for aid to victims of the floods, comparing the steady encroachment of the flood waters to armed invasion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood at Vacy. Several Narrow Escapes
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 4
On Saturday morning the river at Vacy rose rapidly, and reached 40 feet, covering all the low lands. Fortunately, all the house are above…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 4
The Wollombi flood waters have made a rapid getaway, and towards lunch times to-day the creek was at the 20 feet mark and falling,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tornado and Floods. (By Cable.) Vancouver
Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
A message from Kansas City states that as a result of further tornadoes and cloudbursts on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, 20 deaths have been added…
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