Cyclone in Majorca
LONDON, Wednesday.—A destructive cyclone has occurred in Majorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, off the coast of Spain, many houses being…
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Floods & storms, 1902
71 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 4
Heavy Gale. Great Loss of Life
LONDON, Tuesday.—A heavy gale has occurred at Port Elizabeth, in the Cape Colony. Seventeen vessels were driven ashore, and two tugs…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Fifty-two bodies have already been washed ashore at Port Elizabeth, and it is estimated that at least 70 were drowned…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Royal mail steamer Scot has arrived at Capetown badly strained, after a terrible passage from Port Elizabeth…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Union Coal Pit, in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire, was suddenly flooded yesterday. Seven miners were cut off by…
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LONDON, Friday.—Tremendous hailstorms have occurred in the South of England, and the hop and fruit crops in Mid Kent have been ruined…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Severe floods have occurred in Southern Bengal. Twenty-five villages have been destroyed and two bridges swept away…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The rivers Brahmuni and Banslai, in Bengal, have overflowed, and 25 villages along the banks have been destroyed…
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The Public Works Committee were engaged to-day in taking further evidence respecting the proposed schemes of flood mitigation in…
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LONDON, Saturday.—A cyclone which extended over twenty-four hours has occurred in Sicily, causing great loss or life and immense…
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LONDON, Sunday.—In Scielli, in the south of Sicily, 60 persons were drowned. The damage done in the province of Syracuse by the cyclone.und the…
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The "Bombay Gazette" of August a says:—Somewhat late in the day come further particulars of the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal in May last, and the part played…
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Both inland and along the coast during the 24 hours ended on Saturday at am., the thunderstorms of the previous day caused a light rainfall over a large area of…
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In Newcastle and suburbs it rained practically the whole of yesterday, and the wind was at times very strong. The fall on the whole was nearly equal to that…
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The following details are given by New York papers of the extraordinary railway fatality at Waseca, in the State of Minnesota, where, as reported by cable in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Thunderstorms in Brisbane
On Saturday last a thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy rain, passed over Brisbane. The rain, which fell in torrents, lasted for…
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In the terrific cyclone in the Bay of Bengal last May in which the steamers Camorta and Hermoid went to the bottom with all hands, the Royal Indian Marine…
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New South Wales was swept yesterday by the fringe of the violent duststorm and heat wave that on Wednesday passed over Victoria like a furnace blast Reports to…
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The weather conditions in the city to-day wore exceptionally uncomfortable. From early morning, the air was full of dust, and so thick that it hung like a…
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A Madrid letter to the "Politische Correspondenz" describes the position in Morocco as highly critical and deserving of general attention. The troops sent by the…
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