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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Floods & storms
94 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 5
News of devastation caused by flood waters is gradually trickling through. It is estimated that at least 1,000 people are homeless in the Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A violent thunderstorm broke over London and district last Wednesday afternoon. At Ascot, where the great race meeting was in progress, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Racing down from the hills, flood waters swelled the Wyong Creek, and early last night it had risen 25 feet. Residents in low-lying areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Absorbing flood water by storage wells is a plan French engineers are considering. Much damage was formerly done by inundations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At last night's meeting of the Forbes Hospital Board, the Matron reported as follows:-- Daily average of patients since last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cable from London states that at Chapman's request, owing to the uncertainty of the weather, Goddard or Gloucestershire, has been invited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three European tourists and six Indians were killed by lightning in Lesser Tibet to-day. The party was crossing the Zowila Pass when it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Orange tourney starts next week-end' and a few local members are talking about making the trip. A friend tells me that one of our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The battered s.s Tainns has berthed in the Thomes, after a terrific three days' battle with a cyclone which she encountered when three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During a fierce windstorm last night Jack Harris, a rigger foreman employed at the Sydney Harbor bridge, had to climb along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A terrific windstorm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, swept over the town about 5.30 on Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Show was successfully, conducted without, accident or misadventure of any kind. Unfortunately the storm in the late afternoon prevented a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →During a storm in Dirranbandi district, Queensland, 50 sheep were killed by lightning, while 150 others were smothered as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A caretaker named Polkener, at the Defence Barracks at Karafula, Mad a sudden brain-storm, and murdered his wife and four children. He then set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The selling of cheap Russian wheat continues to demoralise the world's wheat markets. The question agitating the markets tis:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →American petrol interests are much perturbed just now over the deluge of crude oil flowing and being pumped from thousands of oil bores, which…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The rise in the Lachlan River sent the flood waters over the 15ft. walls of the coffer dam at Wyangala early last week…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →American petrol interests are much perturbed just now over the deluge of crude oil flowing and being pumped from thousands of oil bores, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A flood wiped out the village of Bethany Inolahoma, near Honolulu, Hawaii when 23 were killed, and 100 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A number of thunderstorms swept over the district on Friday, followed by steady rain throughout the greater part of the area, with the result that…
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