Flood at Maitland Watermain Bursts 40 Year Old Pipes
Portions of High and Bulwer streets, West Maitland, were flooded at about 10 o'clock last night. A six-inch main in front of Willis's…
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Floods & storms, 1925
273 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
Southerly Gale Ships Return to Port
About half-past two this morning a strong southerly wind began to blow in Newcastle. Between five and eight o'clock the wind reached a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Echo Damaged Council's Cottage
Echoes of last week's storm were heard in the Carrington Council Chamber last night, when the Mayor (Alderman Devon) reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Film Flood Britain Decides to Resist Showmen Combine London
Representatives of a thousand London cinemas have resolved to combat "block booking" and also the efforts of American film producers to secure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Gale
A ninety-mile gale and torrential rain suddenly burst on England and France, damaging telegraphs and telephones. Numerous ships are limping to Channel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Persian Gulf Storm
The Bushire correspondent of the "Daily Gazette" states that the worst cyclonic storm within living memory has occurred in the Persian Gulf, resulting in the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Gales Fishing Fleet Meets Disaster St. John's
Hurricanes have swept the Newfoundland, coast line. The fishing fleet suffered severely. Several disasters are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wild Storms Air Races Postponed Hinkler Out Baltimore
Gales which lashed Chesapeake Bay to fury caused a postponement of the air races for the Schneider Cup. The Australian pilot, Bert Hinkler,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storms in America
It is reported from New York that devastating wind storms struck the Atlantic coast States, resulting in the death of at least 21 persons, and heavy damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms Exaggerated
The storm in the Persian Gulf, which occurred on October 1, was serious, but the casualties have been greatly exaggerated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Persian Gulf Cyclone
A message received at Bushire from Bahrein confirms the reports that the cyclone was exaggerated. It states that 32 divers were drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Back to Ice Age Phenomena] Hail Storm "A Foot Thick" Perth
A severe hailstorm completely destroyed 3000 acres of crop in the Esperance district, 200 miles south of Kalgoorlie, leaving a sheet of Ice…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wild Flood Appalling Loss of Life in Wales Dam Gives Way Rushing Torrent Overwhelms Village
North Wales has been shocked by the greatest flood disaster in its history, and it is believed that 30 lives have been lost. A raging torrent, caused by the bursting of a dam, swept a mountain gorge, catching people in their homes and drowning them before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Gale Liner's Passengers Suffer LONDON
Fifty of the Berengaria's passengers arrived at Cherbourg cut and bruised as a result of having been thrown against the bulkheads during a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welsh Horror Dolgarrog Disaster Cause of Floods Search for Bodies LONDON
MR. HENRY JACK, managing director of the North Wales Power Company, explaining the Dolgarrog disaster, said that it was due…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Gale
The story of a terrific Atlantic gale, in which the huge Cunarder Berengaria, 52,226 tons, was tossed about like cork, was told on her arrival at Southampton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fierce Gales Yacht Driven Ashore LONDON
Fierce gales are playing havoc with shipping. The St. George, the yacht in which a party recently returned from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Storm
At about 5 p.m. yesterday a very heavy thunderstorm passed over Cessnock, and in about a quarter of an hour 50 points of rain fell. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight for Life Cold Sea Claims its Victims One by One Swim Through Gale Lose Survivor Tells How Capsized Boat's Crew Died
The only survivor of a party of ten whose boat capsized in a heavy gale, swam ashore on a Nova Scotia beach, where he lay, more dead than alive, until found by a passer-by in the early morning. He told a traglo story of a long fight against freezing cold, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm and Fire Crowded Liner Burns in Howling Gale Thrilling Rescues Seamanship Triumphs Over Storm-tossed Ocean
Though the sea was stung to fury by a terrific gale, 350 passengers and the crew were removed without the loss of a single life when the liner Lenape burned to the water's edge off the American coast…
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