Bloemfontein Flooded. Much Loss of Life
LONDON, Tuesday.—Serious floods have occurred at Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange River Colony. The disaster was due to heavy rains,…
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Floods & storms, 1904
88 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Kolya in a Gale
The Adelaide Company's steamers Kolya had a tempeatous passage from Hunbury to Wellington. When she was half-way between Tasmanian and New Zealand a fierce…
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A storm of exceptional violence passed over the Maitland district yesterday afternoon shortly after four o'clock. During the morning the weather was very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kensington in a Cyclone
News has been received that the shop Kensington arrived at San Francisco on December 17, after a passage of 77 days from Newcastle. Nine days after the vessel cleared…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The Alleghanny River, in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), has risen 23 feet, and is gaining in volume hourly…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Many days' successive rain have caused a great flood in the Thames Valley. A tidal wave has swept the south…
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A great storm broke over Melbourne on Saturday evening, between six and eight o'clock. Rain fell in blinding sheets, and the wind blew with hurricane force, while…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The flood caused in the valley of the Thames as a result of many successive days' rain proved to be the highest that has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Age in a Gale. Funnel Rolls Overboard. Sydney
The steamer Age, of the Howard Smith line, met with a rough experience while bound from Port Pirie to Newcastle. She arrived in Port Jackson to-day with nor…
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Further particulars of the floods at Petersburg and Gladstone allow that there are nineteen washaways on the Broken Hill line, and that the line has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain at Singleton. Singleton
Heavy ran fell yesterday throughout the district, 575 points being registered an to 9 a.m. to-day, when the river had risen to the left level. At Denman 637 points…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Phenomenal Rainfall. Rapid Rise in the Hunter. Apprehension of Floods
The unsettled weather, and the exceptionally heavy rainfall of the last few days, has resulted in creeks and rivers in many portions of the State being in…
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The collapse of the lower portions of the flood-gates in wallis Creek on Monday night caused a wall of water several feet high to rush up the creek, tearing away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood in the Hunter. Bolwarra Dam Breaks. Farms Submerged. West Maitland
The weather to-day was showery during the morning, but after noon it was fine, but threatening. The residents of the district were anxious during the whole day,…
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The quantity of drift wood in the river was so great on Tuesday afternoon that for about a couple of hours, just at the turn of the tide, there was so large an…
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The river washed the gauge at the Belmore Bridge to-day between the 29ft and the 30ft marks. Towards evening it commenced to fall, and at ten o'clock it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Message From the Flood
Mr. Arthur Kenward has handed to Mr. H. A. Graham, of Stockton, a letter, which he states found in a bottle stranded on Stockton ocean beach, about two miles from…
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The river, which was washing between the 26 and 27 feet marks on the Belmore Bridge gauge on Wednesday at 10 p.m., toll during that night, and on Thursday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Flood Gates
As a result of Mr. John Gillies representation to the Works Department, Mr. W. J. Millner, District Engineer, paid a visit of inspection to the flood gates…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our New Zealand Letter. March 13. Floods in the South
After a wonderfully dry spell, we have had heavy rains, and in the South Island floods. A Balclutha, a town in Otago, the river rose over 11ft, and the residents…
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