The North-west Storm. Koombana Not Yet Sighted. Perth
News concerning the cyclone on the north-west coast is still far from complete owing to the fact that the telegraph lines north of Roebourne are not…
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Floods & storms, 1912
156 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 8
Storm in Sydney. Sydney
After some exceptionally vivid lightning and heavy thunder, rain set in about nine o'clock to-night, and continued heavily for about half-an-hour. In some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone in Buenos Ayres. Eighteen Persons Killed. Buenos Ayres
A violent cyclone has swept over the city and the surrounding district, doing great damages, and resulting in serious loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tower Blown Over. Effect of a Gale. Berlin
The wireless tower at Potsdam has been blown down in a gale. The tower, which was 650 feet high, was regarded as a remarkable feat of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berlin Tube Railway. Still Flooded. Berlin
The tube railway which runs under the bed of the river Spree, and which was recently flooded as a result of the tunnel collapsing, is still impassable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. a Town Inundated. Hickman (Kentucky)
The Mississippi River broke in the levee (an embankment to prevent inundation), and flooded the streets of the town to a depth of eight feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in America. Caused by an Ice Dam. Durnand (Wisconsin)
An icebridge has formed on the Crippowa River, which has caused great floods. A large section of the Chicago-St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. a City Surrounded. Cairo (Illinois)
The city is surrounded by water, and the trains and street cars have stopped running, The Mississipi tore a largo rent in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. Enormous Losses. Thousands Homeless. Washington
The death list of the floods is dully growing. Ten persons are known to have been drowned in the Mississippi, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Weather in England. Severe Gales. London
Cold, dry weather is prevailing, and owing to the dislocation of the train service in consequence of the coal strike, many landowners are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Recent Cyclone. the Wrecked Koombana. Perth
The proprietors of the "Daily News" have received a letter from Mr. Clement Wragge, from Chiltern, Victoria, stating if the Central Weather Bureau in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Floods. Crisis Reached. Memphis (Tennessee)
A crisis has been reached in the floods in the Mississippi River. If the dykes at Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Northern Louisiana hold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Floods. Fear of Pestilence. Memphis (Tonn)
Reports from everywhere indicate the subsidence of the flood waters of the Mississippi. A serious feature is an outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gales on the Coast. Thick Rain Squalls
Early yesterday morning light rain fell in Newcastle, and in the afternoon the wind, which had been blowing from the north-west, veered to the south-east, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm in Sydney. Sydney
A violent south-east gale, accompanied by heavy rain squalls, has been blowing all day. A large two-storeyed factory in course of construction in Botany-road, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. the Seventy Flood
Yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of one of the most disastrous floods that has swept over Maitland. The river rose to a height of 34ft in on April 26,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SCHOONER H. K. Hall. Battered in a Gale. San Francisco
The schooner H. K. Hall, ex Newcastle, New South Wales, had a rough passage to this port, where she arrived yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in the Hunter
Mr. F. H. Kelly predicts a wet winter. His forecast is as follows:— There are indications of the approach of a period of intense solar activity, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mississippi Again. Floodwaters Rising. Torenas (Louisiana)
Levees guarding the country towns along the banks of the Mississippi have broken, and the river is rising rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. Appalling Devastation. 100,000 Homeless. New Orleans
The conditions on the lower Mississippi caused by the flood are appalling. Over a hundred thousand persons…
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