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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
121 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 7
LONDON, Wednesday.—Terrific weather has prevailed in the Atlantic A steamer has arrived in the Mersey and reports having lost four hundred head of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Renewed gales and rain storms have been experienced through- out Great Britain. Several wrecks have occurred, resulting in a great loss of life. On…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, Monday.—I here have been extensive floods in the south of France. Several villages are surrounded by water, and the people are being fed by means of boats…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday afternoon the locally-owned schooner Zephyr returned to the harbour from Auckland, after an absence of about two months. She is timber laden. After leaving Auckland on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—A fearful cyclone has swept over the Argentine Republic. Houses and trees were blown down in all direction, and many people were killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday—The Indian Marine steamer Enterprise is reported to have foundered off Port Blair during a terrific cyclone. Seventy-seven men were drowned, only six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after 1 o'clock on Wednesday the town was visited by a cyclone, carrying with it in its course, carrying destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During a thunderstorm on Monday night a cloud burst over the Mount Hope district, flooding the country for miles around. Hundreds of acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—The gale has subsided in the south, but continues in the north-east. Farther wrecks are guarantees of its strength…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The recent great storm has been the worst that has been experienced for years on the English coast. After heroic efforts and repeated unsuccessful launchinge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BURING a violent thunderstorm which visited Sydney at about half-past 8 o'clock this morning a shocking catastrophe occurred at Homebush, which created a great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Tuesday.—A cyclone has passed over Baltimore, Washington, and the Western States, unroofing and destroying houses, and causing numerous fires. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Fletcher, of the tug steamer Admiral, which arrived on Thursday morning last week in the barque Dunard in tow for Glasgow (writes "Fair Play," of 30th October), reports that they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was a bright evening near the last of October. The mail had just come in, and brought Alice letters, to gladden her heart for many months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The strife of fiends is on the battling clouds, The glare of hell is on the sulphurous lightnings. This is no earthly storm!…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday.—Terrific gales are being experienced along the British coasts. Considerable damage has been caused and many wrecks are reported. So far no loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A severe cyclone visited Muttaburra yesterday, destroying a large amount of property. Several houses were blown down and others unroofed. All the public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IMMENSE damage was done in the Andaman Islands by the recent cyclone, in which the Enterprise went down. The tornado broke with terrific force…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Go, when the hunter's hand hath wrung From forest cave her shrieking young, And calm the lonely lioness—And But chide not—mock not my distress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday.—A destructive storm has occurred at Valencia, Spain. Fifteen vessels in the harbour were wrecked, 50 persons being drowned…
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