Guard Against Floods. Raising Paris Quays. Paris
The Municipality of Paris is spending £1,000,000 on raising the levels of the quays along the River Scine. This is intended to guard against…
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Floods & storms, 1911
146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 8
Queensland Forecast. South-easterly Gale Coming. Brisbane
The Weather Bureau issued advice this afternoon that a tropical disturbance is probably travelling to the south-east at some distance from the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm in Canada. Worst for Twenty Years. Vancouver
The worst storm for twenty years is sweeping Canada from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. Eleven days' rain has isolated a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Queensland. Railway Lines Submerged. Brisbane
The Railway Department has received advice that two serious washaways have occurred near Barcaldine. Repairs cannot be executed until the water subsides…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victims of the Storm. Madrid
Fifteen vessels, with 43 men and a number of fishing boats, are missing from Catalonia, as the result of a storm in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Eastern. Floated by a Gale. Brisbane
The steamer Eastern, which had been fast on the Salamander Bank for the past ten days, was driven off by a gale early on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Brisbane Letter. Brisbane, February 3. More Floods
Flood news is becoming quite a stock item in the daily press. During the past three weeks a new tropical disturbance has been stirring up trouble over the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Queensland. Brisbane
All train services between Hughenden and Cloncurry, have been suspended owing to the floods, and also all traffic on the Ayr line. The water is ten feet over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Spanish Storm. Madrid
Further details of the storm on the Spanish coast state that there have been eleven additional fatalities at Peniscola, 37 at Beni Carlos, and nine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone in Reunion. Great Havoc Caused. Paris
A cyclone, which has lasted three days, has caused great havoc in Reunion, and communication is interrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone at Monte Bello. Perth
According to information received at Onslow from Monte Bello Island, a cyclone was experienced on the 7th inst. The lugger Blackwing is a total wreck,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale Off Queensland. Torrential Rainfall. Brisbane
The heavy weather on the coast has delayed some of the coastal shipping. The Government steamer John Douglas arrived in Brisbane this morning, from Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in the Country
During the past few weeks large areas of country have been inundated, and streams, small and large, have been in high flood. Several lives have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm in New York. New York
A woman was killed and 15 persons injured in the city during a storm of sleet and snow, which lasted 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mine Flooded. All the Men Rescued. London
A large volume of water invaded the Benwood pit at Newcastle-on-Tyne. There were 400 men underground at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Illinois. Great Damage Done. Chicago
The waters of the Pecantonica River are higher than they have been for fifty years. Hundreds of families have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Scotland. Several Rivers Overflow. London
Serious floods have occurred at Glasgow owing to continuous rain, end the Clyde has overflowed its banks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Cable News. Storms in Mississippi. Vancouver
Severe snowstorms are crippling traffic in the Mississippi Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms in Vienna. Many People Injured. Vienna
Extraordinary wind storms have been experienced in the city. There have been 89 cases of limbs broken through people being blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of the Waratah. Finding of the Court. Capsized in a Storm. Some Severe Comments. London
The Board of Trade inquiry as to the loss of the Lund liner Waratah concluded yesterday, when Court delivered its deferred decision…
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