Floods in Queensland. Many Lives Lost Town Destroyed Rockhampton
Light rain commenced at midday on Wednesday at Clermont, and this proved the prelude to the most disastrous floods. The…
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Floods & storms, 1917
15 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Heavy Storm
At 5.30 on Thursday afternoon last week a wind and hail storm broke over Bullahdelah. The River View Hotel balcony was lifted bodily and thrown…
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Last week end it reined somewhat on the Macleny, though nothing to wurry ahout; and it also rained in Armidale a few inches that sent down…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss by Floods in the United States
During the year 1915 the losses due to flood waters throughout the United States aggregated nearly 21,000,000 dollars. Of this amount, more than half was sustained by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Guarding the Bank of England. Bullion Department Flooded
The Bank of England in quito the best-gurarded institution in the world. No burglar or bank-thief has ever succeeded in making it part with a penny. The great outer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coastal Gale. Sydney
Yesterday's gale was of unusual severity. The velocity of the wind at times reached 54 miles an hour. Shipping in the harbor experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Secret Revealed. Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. Chapter I—sunshine Before the Storm
"You haven't forgotten the cream, Morris?" "No, sir." The faultless factotum made a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Gale
A VIOLENT gale swept over Sydney on Wednesday, and great damage was done. The Scots Church and St. Phiilip's Church suffered severely, part of the roof of the…
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"This is by far the heaviest fall of snow I have seen in Watcha." This observation comes from the oldest resident with over sixty years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Storm Breaks
The ill-starred strike, which ha[?] already caused so much distress and loss, still remains the storm-center of interest. There are, however…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in the Murray
THE flood in the Murrey at Albury reached 15ft. 7in. above summer level on Monday night This is the greatest height registered for 40 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Spirit of the Storm
IT WAS a [?] day to be i[?] in Sydney [?] Yet when the [?]ght it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Deluge
The Moreton Bay fig, gross and greedy feeder as it is, making its luxuriant growth at the expense of the vegetation around it, has found a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Torrential Rains. the Country Flooded
For a week, ending last Friday, rain fell at intervals--with more or less severity--throughout the district, and up to Thursday morning at 9…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thunderstorms
ONE of the features of this extraordinary season is the prevalence of thunderstorms. Hardly a day passes of late without one, or a series of two or three of them…
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