Mail Steamer in a Gale
The Orient Company's R.M.S. Orvicto met with heavy weather running across the Bight, which accounted for tier being nine hours late reaching Fremantle, For…
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Floods & storms, 1912
156 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 8
The Great Gale. Tremendous Seas. Damage at Newcastle
The gale that swept the coast lashed up a sea which was the heaviest seen off Newcastle for many years. Yesterday the wind had lost a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kapunda in the Storm. Sydney
The Melbourne Steamship Company's steamer Kapunda, which left Sydney on Saturday night for Newcastle, returned to Sydney early this evening, after a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Floods. Great Loss of Life. Vancouver
Floods, occasioned by cloudbursts, have killed two hundred people in the State of Guanajuato, in Mexico. The cities of Salamanca and Celaya…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After the Gale. Extensive Damage Done. Matters at the Dyke
The storm has left Its track to no unmistakable way around the Newcastle foreshores. Sabsidences have occurred in numerous places to the roadway at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Storm. Wellington
The country is just now suffering from the worst storm experienced for years. Many of the rivers in both islands are roaring floods, and considerable damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Merewether. Damage by the Storm
The force of the recent gale was severely felt upon the Merewether beach, and the efforts of the authorities to beautiful the shores have met with a rude…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in America. Caused by Cloudburst. Jeannette (Penn.)
Hundreds of persons were compelled to flee for their lives when a cloud burst and flooded miles of territory in this district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in America. Men Drowned Like Rats. the Coalmine Disaster. Uniontown (Penn.)
Further details regarding the inrush of water down the shaft of the Frick coalmine in consequence of the bursting of the Evans station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Seas Moderating. Flood in the Hawkesbury. Sydney
Reports to hand yesterday showed that the rough seas which have been sweeping the coast during the week are moderating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sun-spots and Storms
Mr. Garrett Service figures in the on cyclopaedia as a man of world-wide reputation It is as a Scientist. Probably he is the most fascinating writer on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Nevada. Railway Washouts. Reno (Nevada)
Telegraphic communication has been interrupted in Western Nevada by floods, which are attributed to cloud bursts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's Summer. Snow and Floods. Prayers for Fine Weather. London
The present month is the coldest August that has been experienced for half a century. The Grampians are snow-clad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Storms on the Sun
Since 1905 more than four thousand photographs of the sun have been taken with the Snow telescope on Mount Wilson, at the solar observatory, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Holiday. Fatalities and Floods. Yachting at Cowes. London
An extraordinary cloudburst occurred at Greenock yesterday. Shops and tunnels were flooded, and the tramcars were stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Olympia in a Gale. Two Seamen Lost
The German four-masted barque Olympia, which arrived at Newcastle of Wednesday night from Santos, passed through some severe weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]Nd District. West Maitland Courts. Thursday, August 15. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)
Francis Hill, license of the East Gre[?] Hotel pleaded guilty to having on Sunday August 4th sold liquor on his licensed premises, contrary to the Liquor Act…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Off Spain. Many Men Drowned. Madrid
During a storm which has swept the north coast of Spain many fishing vessels foundered. One hundred and twenty people were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Police Court. Wednesday, August 14. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. B. Pryor, J.P.)
Walter O'Shea, charged with violent behaviour in the police office, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, with 6s coats, or seven days' imprisonment Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storms in England. Many Crops Ru[?]ned. London
Violent thunderstorms and cloud[?]arts in various paris of England [?] severely afected the harvest. At Daventry, in Northamptonshire,…
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