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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Mississippi Floods. Over the Telegraph Poles. New Orleans

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 5

The flood reports from Torras grow in gravity. People have been swept off the roots of houses on which they had…

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Mississippi Floods. Danger Abating. New Orleans

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 5

No rain has fallen in the Mississippi Valley for three days, and the flood is abating. Preparations are complete for, the…

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Storms in America Great Damage. Des Moines (Iowa)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 May 1912 · page 5

Terrific electric storms have visited the district, and many houses were flooded during the rainstorms. A warehouse was struck by…

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Cyclone in Hungary. Country Devastated. Budapest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 May 1912 · page 5

A terrific cyclone swept over the country round Alsofahor. Several villages were destroyed, 450 building being demolished…

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Storm Besieged Islanders. Living on Seabirds' Eggs. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1912 · page 5

A series of storms have prevented any boats visiting the Island of St. Kilda, in the outer Hebrides Group, since December…

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Mining Camp Flooded. Santiago (Chill)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 5

A mining cammp at Gatico, in the province of Antofagasta, has been flooded. Forty men were killed or injured…

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Floods in Canada. Villages Submerged. Winnipeg

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 5

Floods having caused the rivers to overflow their banks, dozens of villages in the territory have been submerged…

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Floods in Hungary. Eighty People Drowned. Budapest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 5

Great floods have, occurred in the south-east of Hungary. Hundreds of peasants' houses were destroyed. The inhabitants of several…

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Greta Police Court. Tuesday, June 4. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and B. Pryor, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 7

Alfred Briscoe, charged with riotous behaviour at Greta, was fined 10s, in default three days imprisonment. Walter O'Shea, for a like offence, was similarly…

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Wireless Telegrapay. Tracing Storms. Estimating Their Speed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1912 · page 5

The International Radiographic Congress, sitting in London, has inaugurated a movement in favour of international action to make…

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Floods in Colorado. Villages Inundated. San Francisco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 June 1912 · page 5

The Colorado River is overflowing in all directions, and many villages are inundated. Boats were required to rescue the…

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Colorado Floods. a Dyke Bursts. San Francisco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1912 · page 5

A dyke broke near an Indian village on the Colorade River, and a great portion of the village was destroyed, while some lives were lost…

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Severe Storms. Official Prediction. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1912 · page 4

Mr. Hunt, the Commonwealth Meteorologist, stated to-day that an intense cyclone had formed at the southern and of the monsoonal depression, which has…

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Storms in the Andes. Chilian Railway Damaged. Santiago De Chile

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 June 1912 · page 5

Fresh storms have swept over the Cordillera de los Andes, the great mountain range separating Chile from the eastern States of South America…

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Greta Police Court. Tuesday, July 2. (Before C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. B. Pryor, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 7

G. H. Godfrey, health inspector, proceeded against Bernard F. M'Cosker on a charge that he did not feed pigs in an enclosed yard, floored with brick or other…

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Storm in Chicago. No Lives Lost. Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 5

A terrific electric storm occurred in the city to day. Lightning struck twelve houses, and floods of water invaded the hasements…

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Heavy Rain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 6

Wet weather conditions prevailed in the Maitland district on Saturday and Sunday, the total rainfall for the two days exceeding four inches. Reports…

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Storm Swept. a Terrific Gale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 4

Very early yesterday morning a strong southerly gale sprang up at Newcastle, and was accompanied by heavy rain. The wind increased in velocity, and some of the…

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Heat in Europe. Floods in England. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 July 1912 · page 5

The whole of South-eastern England is at present suffering from the effects of excessive heat. In London on Friday 88 degrees was…

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The Gale Abated. Heavy Sea on the Coast. Kapunda Still Missing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1912 · page 5

Sunday's gale practically blew itself out at night, and the conditions yesterday, although boisterous, bad modstrated, Further heavy showers of rain fell at…

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