Floods in India. 450 Persons Drowned. Bombay
The latest reports regarding the recent floods in the Palatina district state that 10 inches of rain fell in six hours. The damage is estimated at £60,000. It is…
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Great Storm Off Florida. New York
The florida Keys (Island along the coast of Florida) have been swept by a terrible storm. At the height of the gale a tldal wave flowed over Marsh Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Flood Town. London, June 22
A dastardly attempt to make a breach in a canal embankment is attributed to suffragettes. A quantity of explosive was placed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Heavy Rains and Floods. Eleven Inches at Bega. Bridges Carried Away. Sydney
Strong gales prevail and rough soas are running along the coast, and telegraphic communication with the North Coast and with Brisbane is interrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fears of Flood. Newcastle
Reports from nearly all the stations in waterbed of the Hunter River show an exceptionally heavy rainfall. At Wollombi Creck there was a rise at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Namoi and Hunter Rivers in Flood
The Namoi River overflowed at Gunnadah to-day. The lowlying parts of the town are submerged, and several country mail services are held up. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train in River. Flood Causes Disaster. Calcutta, June 30
A terrible railway disaster has occurred in the Bardwan district. When crossing a bridge a train containing 100 native passengers, the majority…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Danger of Flood. Levee Bank Wants Strengthening
A largely attended public meeting was held at Staples. Hotel on Monday evening last for the purpose of considering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Pox Scare a Deluge of Vaccinations. Fourteen More Cases. Sydney
Fourteen fresh smallpox patients were removed to the quarantine station to-day. There are now 200 persons in quarantine, 65 being patients and 112 contacts and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Effect of Recent Floods in the Hunter
As the result of floods in the Hunter River, a serious silting up has taken place below. Morpeth, and navigation is imperilled. Before the last rise in the river…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Why We Enjoy Heavy Rain
There are few things that are more depressing than a drizzle. On the other hand, there is no condition of the atmosphere which is more in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Don'ts for Thunderstorms
Every year a largo number of people are killed by lightning because they did not know what to do in a thunderstorm.. First of all, it is safer to be indoors than…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Cablegrams. Terrific Storm. Breaks Over Washington Deaths Through the Lightning. U.S. Presidents Sensational Experience. Dreadful Half Hour for Painters. Washington
This city has just passed through a dreadful experience. A terrific thunderstorm broke with appalling violence, and the lightning struck the city with dire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Storm. Deluge at Washington. Citizens Killed. Washington, July 30
The intense heat of the past few days culminated this forenoon in a thunderstorm, which was accompanied by terrific lightning, wind of a hurricane force, and…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Flood of Japanese Land Companies. San Francisco
No fewer than 99 Japanese land companies with a capital of 2,000,000 dollars have been authorised during July and August. This development has taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Indian Flood Disaster. Great Loss of Life. Calcutta, August 11
There has been grievous loss of life owing to heavy rains having caused the collapse of the flood levees of the Damodar River, an important tributary of the Hooghly…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Floods in India. Great Loss of Life. Calcutta
Embankments, collapsed through rains on the Damodar River. A number of villages was destroyed, and there was great loss of life. Bardwon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cyclone in Italy. Milan Vignerons Suffer. Rome
Vignerons in the Millan district have sustained heavy loses owing to the ravages of a cyclone, which swept through the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All About the Flood
A district goods manager, wanting details of the floods of November 1903, on a section of his line, telegraphed to the agent at one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Deluge of Rain. Floods in New York City. Hurricane on Atlantic Coast. New York
A deluge of rain was experienced In New York on Friday. Three inches fell In a remarkably short space of time, and the storm water channels were unable to car…
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