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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1921

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Colorado Floods Pueblo Cloudburst Immense Loss of Life VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 June 1921 · page 5

Three Colorado towns and many farms were flooded by a cloud burst. Six persons are known to be dead. The rivers are overflowing, and…

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Colorado Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 5

Reports from Pueblo, Colorado, state that the best estimates place the toll of the flood at 250 lives, and the property damage at 10,000,000 dollars, but…

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Colorado's Holocaust Pueblo Floods Pestilence and Death VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 1

The storm in Colorado continues. The waters are rising at Pueblo for the third time in two days and more deaths are feared. A hundred…

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Colorado Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 7

A message from Pueblo slates that the official chock indicates the flood death roll to be greatly below the estimates. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered…

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Help for the Harvest Beneficial Rains Falls in Wheat Country Risks of Flood Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 6

Twelve months ago New South Wales was relieved from a drought of two years' standing by rains, the origin of which in producing the…

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£4,000,000 Damage Pueblo Floods Vancouver

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 5

A message from Denver states that the damage resulting form the Pueblo floods is officially estimated at £4,000,000…

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Colorado Floods Subside

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 5

The flood at Pueblo is subsiding, revealing tragic devastation in the affected area, which is covered by several feet of mud, in which motor cars, street cars,…

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Rivers Rising Floods Not Feared More Abundant Rains SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 5

Despite further abundant rainfalls yesterday, there are no immediate dangers as far as floods are concerned. The Barwon at Walgett has risen to…

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Floods in Queensland. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1921 · page 5

Serious floods have occurred at Conditions banks. The M'Intyre River broke its banks on Saturday night, and the whole town, with the exception of one small…

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The Queensland Floods. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 5

The flood waters at Goondiwindi, which covered the town two to six feet, are receding though this afternoon the river was still a banker…

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Flood Prevention

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 June 1921 · page 5

Mr. Waller Bennett, M.L.A., has been officially informed that the inspecting engineer-in-charge of public works in Newcastle has been…

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Floods in Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1921 · page 5

A telegram from Tokio reports that the prolonged rainy season has caused the worst floods for thirty years. A hundred and thirty persons have been…

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Canastota Overdue on the Alert Probable Storm Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 June 1921 · page 8

Anxiety is felt for the safety of the cargo steamer Canastota, which is four days overdue at Wellington from Sydney, en route to Boston and New…

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Floods in Japan Heavy List of Dead VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 June 1921 · page 1

A message from Tekio states that there have been terrill[?] floods in Jap[?] The list of dead numbers 200…

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What the World Needs Peace and Prosperity Mr. Hughes as a Lighthouse "Blast in Industrial Storm" London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 June 1921 · page 1

The United Kingdom Parliamentary Association tendered a dinner to-night to the imperial Conference delegates and two hundred others in the Royal…

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Maitland District. River in Flood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 June 1921 · page 6

Heavy rain ferr over Maitland district on Friday and Saturday nights, end there must have been heavy rain on some of the upper reaches of the Hunter River,…

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Hunter Rising Flood Warning Low Lands Threatened

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 June 1921 · page 6

Very heavy rain fell over the Maitland district on Friday and Saturday nights, and yesterday morning the river [?] to rise rapidly, and about…

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Rona on the Rocks at Wellington Heads Gale in New Zealand

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 6

During a southerly gale on Monday night the barque Rom. with 1000 tons of coal form Newcastle went ashore at 11 o'clock on the rocks inside…

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Cyclone Coming Warning to Ships

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 5

The Deputy Superintendent of Navigation in Newcastle advised this afternoon that he had received a…

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Storm at Newcastle. Gale and Rain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1921 · page 5

Torrential rain fell at Newcastle last evening. The weather was drill and showery during the day, with the wind south, but in the evening the wind…

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