Storm's Toll Destruction in U.S.A. More Than 200 Dead Kansas City
The death roll of the tornadoes and blizzards in the Central Western States of U.S.A. has now mounted to more than 200. Many…
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Floods & storms, 1927
496 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 25
Junction Flooding
Sir,—"Junction Ratepayer" is a keen person, and I commend him for his observations. He asks several questions as to wheather the A. A. Company will be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →American Floods Crisis To-day Tornadoes Cause Death. (Australian Press Association.) New York
The crisis of the Mississippi floods is expected on Wednesday, when engineers anticipate that the levees will break at Big Bend. Everything is being done to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The American Cyclone
The cyclone which originated in Texas last Saturday, and swept ever soctiona of Arkansas, Kansas, Misouri Illionis, and ladiana, on Sunday and Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dam Inspection Chichester Storm Damage Ceremony on June 11
Water Board members and their president (Mr. Vowell) returned to Newcastle last night after a flying visit to inspect the £5000 storm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →American Floods Waters Rising Sugar Areas Danger (Australian Press Association.) New York
The impact of the swollen Mississippi now bears heaviest on the levee at Bayoff des Glaizes, in which a break is expected Lonrly…
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On the motion of Alderman Hunter, Cessnock Council last night decided to make application to the Treasury for a grant of money for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge Loss Mississippi Floods' Toll Fresh Breaks
MEMPHIS (U.S.A.), Thursday. The Secretary for Commerce, Mr. Hoover, estimates the loss from the Mississippi floods at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →American Floods New Orleans Still in Danger (Australian Press Association.) New York
It is reported from New Oricans that while no definite break has yet occurred in the Bayou des Glaizes levee, the water yesterday began pouring over the dyke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Ruin Mississippi Floods New Orleans
Sixty thousand more people have been driven from their homes by a new break in the levee on the west side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Floods Inundation Extends Thousands of Farms Doomed (Australian Press Association.) New York
It is reported from New Orleans that the water has surged into the countryside through a honeycombed levee along the big bend at a rate estimated by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Faced Death But Old Man Was Light-hearted Street Fatality Easter Gale Recalled at Inquest To-day
That David Herbert Wilson, an old man of 73, died from injuries received by being knocked down by a car (driven by Alfred Goninan), at the corner of Brown and King streets on April 19, was the verdict returned by the…
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It is reported froth New Orleans that practically the entire 50 miles if the levee near hte Bayou do Glaizes is now threaded, the breaks varying in width…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Renown in a Gale in Australian Bight Duchess Watches the Storm H.M.S. RENOWN, at Sea
The rumours yesterday at heavier weather ahead were amply justified during the night, when a heavy south-westerly gale struck the Renown, making conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mississippi Floods New York
It is reported from, New Orleans that coastguards have rescued more than 3000 refugees, in a desperate plight, who were huddled over the week-end on a levee…
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"Thews are not big jobs, but they are very important." This was the conclusion of a letter received from the Raworth and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Floods Further Inroads Rescuing the Sufferers (Australian Press Association.) New York
It is reported from New Orleans that another harrier against the floods has collapsed, marooning 500 inhabitants of Melville, The victims rushed to the tops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peak Passed Mississippi Floods New Orleans
The peak of the Mississippi flood has passed. So efficient were the rescue arrangements that there have been no deaths during the last ten…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boolaroo Races Dress Rehearsal for Cup Meeting Storm's Big Burden
The most interesting race meeting staged by the Boolaroo Racing Club is the one before the Newcastle Cup fixture. The fixture acts as a dress rehearsal to the big Newcastle meeting, and to-morrow a number of Cap horses will be given a final run…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Floods Still Raging More Loss of Life (Australian Press Association.) New York
A message from New Orleans states that with the frenzied flood waters racing towards the village of St. Martin's, 15,000 Arcadian peasants, whose homes are…
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