South Maitland Flood
The river at the Belmore Bridge was down to 15½ feet at 3 p.m. yesterday. It was at its highest at midnight on Wednesday, so that the rate of fall has only…
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Floods & storms, 1927
496 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 25
Mississippi Floods Enormous Damage New York
It is reported from Memphis that, with the Mississippi surging past that city at the rate of over 2,000,000 cubic feet of water a second, and over 3,000,000 miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"It's a Shame" Flood Danger £18,000 NEEDED Water Board Action
It there is £18,260 in the Stale Treasury, Water Board, members are determined to do everything in their power to get it for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Deaths Mississippi Floods Hoover to Rescue Memphis (Tennessee)
The drowning of 23 white women and children five miles from Memphis on Sunday in what seemed to be a safe refuge, and which proved to be a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Damage Effect at Chichester Pipeline Repairs
No further damage had been done to the spillway at Chichester storage reservoir, and it was not anticipated that any additional wash-cuts would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cost of the Cyclone
It has been said that the authorities estimate the cost of the recent cyclone in New South Wales at about £250,000. What have they gone by? It has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mississippi Flood Conditions Alarming Forcible Evacuation (Australian Press Association.) New York
A message from Washington states that General Green, commanding the Mississippi National Guard, has ordered the forcible evacuation of Greenville, Leland, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District South Maitland Flood
The river at the Belmore Bridge was down to 14ft 1in at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a drop of 17 inches in thirteen hours…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Devastation City of New Orleans Menaced U.S.A. FLOODS Mississippi Valley Now Inland Sea
Estimates by the United States Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Hoover), place the death roll due to the Mississippi floods between 200 and 400. More than 150,000 people are homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Darby-street Flood Responsibility Question Changed Contour Conference Next
Representatives of the Hunter Water Board, the A.A. Company, and the Tramway Department will be invited to a conference with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Loss Deputation to Lang Appeal for Help Better Drainage Wanted SYDNEY
That works to relieves the menace of floods in Throsby Creek and Tudor-street Extended be put in hand immediately and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ran Amor Seaman With Razor Murdered Mate Fight in Howling Gale SYDNEY
When the missionary steamer John Williams was being tossed about by the howling gale off Barrenjoey…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Recent Floods Eventful Motor Trip
Leaving Wallsend at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 14th instant, a party of tell set out for Tuncurry in two cars (which were driven by Mr. T. Robertson, of Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Flood Care for the Victims Some in Desperate Need (Australian Press Association.) New York
Estimates of the numbers dead in the flooded areas varied yesterday between 200 and 500. Refugees from the newly-inundated sections of Mississippi,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →200 DROWNED Growing Death List U.S.A FLOODS New Orleans in Peril
The toll of the Mississippi floods continues to grow. Two hundred negroes have been drowned in one district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Responsible Council and Flood Loss Hamilton Denial
Hamilton Council does not recognise any responsibility for flood damage done to properties in Tudor-street Extended…
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Sir,—There have been many complaints about flooded areas in Newcastle districts, and many? complaints about the sewerage. The people are justified in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mississippi Flood Cutting Levees Resisted Fears of Fighting New York
Government officials having endorsed the scheme, preparations are now being made to cut the levee of the Mississippi and on save New Orleans from the floods…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To Save a City Dramatic Flood Fight in U.S.A. State Troops Called Out Armed Farmers Threaten Bloodshed
Rifle shots humming over the official steamer during an inspection of the levees south of New Orleans, which will be cut in an effort to save the city from the onrush of the Mississippi flood waters, warned officials that the patrolling farmers whose…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Deluge
Speaking of Great Waters, we are reminded of the greatest flood of all time, the one told of in The Scriptures—Noah's, Lid it happen? Of course it did, and it…
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