In Flood and Drought Man Behind Pumps Water Engineer's Career
Mr. J. B. Henson, who for 30 years bus served as the engineer of the Hunter Water and Sewerage Board, was farewelled by the…
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Floods & storms, 1922
204 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 11
Prince's Hard Luck Missed Earthquake End of Hakone Gales HAKONE
Following two days' gales and rain, a heavy earthquake shock was experienced in the Hakone district at 10.15 this morning, reverberating in…
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Terrific rains in Texas resulted in floods in several cities. Seven and a half inches of rain fell in Fort Worth, some of the streets being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Orleans Floods Twenty Dead Cotton Lands Inundated VANCOUVER
Reports from New Orleans state that 20 people have been killed, and millions of acres of cotton lands have been inundated with floods, following…
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It is reported from Fort Worth, Texas that the loss of life through flood new totals 57. The property damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Floods Heavy Death Roll VANCOUVER
At Fort Worth, Texas, 64 persons are dead as the result of Hoods, caused through, several tributaries of the Mississippi rising. Valuable cotton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked in Gale Channel Disaster Seventeen Drowned LONDON, Friday Night
Seventeen of the crew, including the captain of the 3000-ton steamer. Depute Albert Talandier, were drowned in a gale in the Channel, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death to Fish Ravages of Storm
Fish are very susceptible to changes of temperature. A hot summer has often been known, for instance, to drive herrings to find cooler water…
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It is reported from New York that the authorities estimate that the Mississippi flood has rendered 50,000 people homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Gale Great Storm Recalled
It is 24 years to-day since the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Maitland was wrecked at Cape Three Points, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms Defied £54,000 for Breakwater Stronger Port Defences Unique Engineering Feat
Unique engineering work has been quietly carried out in Newcastle during the past few months, and is still proceeding. The huge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Danger Bolwarra Fears Making Causeway Safe
The danger of a flood is an ever-pressing one with the farmers of Bolwarra, and the shire council is keeping a watchful eye on the river banks…
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A Rome message states that owing to floods, the town of Corate, which has a population of 45,000 persons, has been almost destroyed…
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The collap[?]e of the town of Corato, in Southern Italy, presents an extraordinary story of human vicissitude, as the town had rapidly progressol from being a tiny…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Flood Gates Repairs at Wallis Creek
A commencement with the repairs to the Wallis Creek floodgates has been made. A quantity of clay was collected some time ago in readiness, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flooded Creek £20,000 SCHEME Safeguarding Maryville
The Mayor of Wickham, in a minute to the council last night, recommended that the Minister for Works be asked to deepen Throsby Creek from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Raging Gales on the Coast Vessels Sheltering in Broken Bay SYDNEY
Raging gales, started by a cyclonic disturbance, have lashed the sea to [?]ury, particularly to the north of Sydney. Woken Bay has proved the salvation of many small coasters plying between Sydney and Newcastle, and during the present tempest several coasters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nine Years Ago Big Flood Recalled
Nine years ago to-day—May 16, 1913—the Hunter River at West Maitland rose to a height of 37 feet. The flood was regarded as one of the greatest ever…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone Coming Sydney
Captain Williams, Federal Deputy-Director of Navigation, yesterday received a telegram from the State Meteorological of Queensland stating…
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A telegram from Capetown reports that the little township of Marienthal, in the South-West Protectorate, has been wiped out in a few minutes by a…
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