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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
496 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 25
The mounting casualty list of men and ships in the disaster off the west coast of Ireland continues to emphasise the unbridled fury of the gale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lack of necessary finance has compelled Lieutenant K. Morton-Frewin to postpone his intended flight from New Zealand to Australia. His 'plane,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cyclone of terrific fury has swept across the country just north of Madras, leaving death and devastation in its trail…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Torrential rains have fallen in five New England States for three days, and the autumn floods in this section of the country are the worst in history. Parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With freezing weather and snow storms gripping the inundated New England, and the known dead totalling 100, the stricken area is undergoing a second phase…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →So far 108 bodies have been recovered from the flooded areas in the New England States. Two hundred persons are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The military authorities estimate the death toll in New England at 125, with 76 bodies already identified. It is expected that the first estimate of 200 will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Immense damage was caused to the village of Rinkenberg, Switzerland, by floods recently. Houses and shops were torn away from their foundations…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In spite of a raging gale, which is expected to last over the week-end, Captain Giles intends to leave San Francisco on his flight across the Pacific to Australia to-morrow. In a trial flight during a gale yesterday, he attained a speed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train passengers from Madras to Calcutta tell a story of a terrific cyclons encountered on the Journey, which took nearly a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several sharp storms with light hall and drenothing showers passed over Cessnock during the week-end. Rainfall for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A ratepayer of Holmesville was indignant with Lake Macquarie shire Council to-day concerning adrainage matter. Ho produced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accompanied by terrific lightning and rainstorm, a cyclone struck the city yesterday morning, and did tremendous damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Capetown message reports that after an exceptionally rough passage the P. and O. branch liner Ballarat has arrived at Table Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Interruptions to electric power, caused by lightning striking a main at the corner of King and Watt streets, Newcastle, plunged the eastern residential section of the city from Wolfe-street in darkness about 10.20 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Best Hinckler and Captain McIntosh's attempt to create a new non-stop record has failed, but it was a glorious failure. In his own story, the exclusive rights of which were bought by "The Sun" and the Melbourne Herald," Hinckler,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The year 1927 will go into history—it has still a few weeks to run—and it keeps on adding to its hurrichnes and tornadoes in way to suggest that it will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The naval historian, Mr. Carr Laughton, has investigated the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and he says that the story of its destruction by terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During Monday night's storm a fireball fell into the residence of Mr. O. Show, at Tuckombil, and burst with a loud report in the drawing-room…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The only storm that Captain Giles encountered was a brain storm," says Major Bowie, head of the San Francisco Weather Bureau. "There is no doubt in my mind that Giles did meet bad…
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