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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Storms in England. Many Crops Ru[?]ned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 August 1912 · page 5

Violent thunderstorms and cloud[?]arts in various paris of England [?] severely afected the harvest. At Daventry, in Northamptonshire,…

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Floods in England. Hay Crops Ruined. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1912 · page 5

Disastrous floods have occurred in the Midlands. The Yorkshire farmers are abandoning their hay, and allowing the…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage at Grenfell. Grenfell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 August 1912 · page 6

A cyclonic storm, appalling in its sudenness, and resulting in an enormous amount of damage, passed over the town yesterday afternoon. Luckily the cyclone…

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Floods in England. the Rainiest August. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 August 1912 · page 5

The present month has proved the rainiest August in England within the memory of living man. The floods which were reported in…

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Floods in England. Thousands Homeless. Worst for Twenty-five Years. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 August 1912 · page 5

Norwich now resembles an island city. The flood is the greatest known for a quarter of a century. Railway and…

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The English Floods. Receding Everywhere Disasters in Norwich. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 5

The floods are receding everywhere, and the railways are reopening. At Norwich the flood is abating, but business is chaotic…

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Rain-stricken Norwich. a Further Deluge. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5

There has been another twelve hour of rain in Norfolk The relief fund for North Norwich has reached the sum of £3000…

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Norwich Flood. Waters Subsiding. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 September 1912 · page 5

The waters are Norwich are now recording rapidly, and the flood gauge is again visible. This was the first time it had been…

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Colliery Flooded. Narrow Escape. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 September 1912 · page 5

An inrush of water from old workings flooded out a colliery at Aberdale yesterday. There were 300 men below at the…

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The Norwich Floods. Buildings Pulled Down. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 5

A number of buildings which, have been rendered unsafe by the floods have been pulled down in Norwich. Hundreds of buildings have been…

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The Norwich Floods. Loss to Tradesmen. London

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

The fund for the relief of the sufferers through the floods at Norwich has now attained the sum of £13,000. The president of the Norwich…

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Floods in Pennsylvania. Many People Drowned. Houses Swept Away. Pittsburg

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

Cloudbursts throughout Pennsylvania have resulted in the drowning of thirty-six persons, whose bodies have been recovered…

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Floods in China. Enormous Death Roll. Towns Washed Away. Shanghai

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 5

Letters from Wenchow, the treaty port in the Chekiang province of China, state that floods of the proportion of a tidal wave have occurred in…

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Port Caroline in a Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 4

South-south-west gales, with exceptionally heavy seas, were encountered by the Anglo-Australian liner Port Caroline on the run from London in Adelaide. A…

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Greta Police Court. Wednesday, September 11. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. B. Pryor, J.P.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 September 1912 · page 6

Andrew Johnston, for drunkenness, was fined 10s, with 6s costs, or seven days' imprisonment, and for using improper language he was fined £3, costs 6s, or one…

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Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1912 · page 5

Owing to the heavy rains most of the rivers are overflowing in various parts of the State. Much damage has been done to bridges…

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Gales on the West Coast. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 5

Unprecedented rough weather has prevailed on the coast of West Australia during the past three weeks, and as a consequence many boats have been…

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Floods in Victoria. Great Losses of Stock. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 5

The Victorian rivers are still rising rapidly, and although the rain has eased for 24 hours, the rapid approach of another depression causes the…

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The Cyclone at Regina

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1912 · page 7

The terrible cyclone which struck Regins, Saskatchowan, Canada, on June 30, killing 50 people and injuring 200 and doing damage to the extent of a million…

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Apprehension in Paris. Floods Anticipated. Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 September 1912 · page 5

Owing to the wet summer, now nearly over the municipal authorities fearing a fresh inundation in the winter, are asking for a large…

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