Cyclone on the Coast. Wreck in Stockton Bight. Newcastle Stormswept
Newcastle was swept yesterday by a storm of terrific violence, that took toll of life and property. The storm began to work up shortly…
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Floods & storms, 1928
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 19
BEACHED Uralla is a Hopeless Wreck Crew's Escape No Steering Gear in Height of Gale
With its back broken and firmly embedded in sand, the North Coast steamer Uralla is high and dry on Boyce's Beach, about 16 miles from Stockton, apparently a hopeless wreck. The crew of 17 is safe and will remain on the vessel until…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central School Play Area Flooded
The playing area at the Central school to-day was flooded as a result of the heavy rain. The raising of the ground in front…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Abating
Yesterday the storm that swept Newcastle on Thursday abated considerably. The wind dropped, and during the day it was blowing a gale from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone Moves Eastward. Sydney
Mr. Mares, the State weather officer, stated to-night that the cyclone, which he described as the most severe on record, was gradually moving eastward, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm-battered Ships Stories of Fine Seamanship Fighting the Gale Member of Crew of Iron Master Lost
No further shipping losses have been reported. The steamer Iron Master, after riding out the gale since Wednesday, entered Newcastle Harbor at 7.15 a.m. to-day. The Coombar, which also struck the gale, entered at 6.50 a.m. and left…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our New Zealand Letter Wellington, June 6. Rimutaka in a Cyclone
On her last voyage from London to Wellington the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rimutaka battled against a cyclonic storm that lasted for 48 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →North Coast Suffers Flooded Areas
Many towns on the North Coast suffered severely through the cyclone. Heavy rain has fallen in the Gloucester district, and the main North…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Diving Into the Teeth of the Gale
This picture of the City of Oran, hound for New York, was taken from the lunging poop of the pilot steamer Captain Cook, which guided the 7000-tonner through Sydney Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Minor Repairs Birubi's Battle With Storm
The pilot steamer Birubi was taken to Walsh Island to-day, to undergo minor repairs, owing to damage being caused when the vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By Sea, Land and Air Speeding Up Search for Nobile Held Up by Storm Castaways' Desperate Trek Over Ice King's Bay (Spitzbergen)
With the subsidence of the storm, which for some days has lashed the coast of Spitsbergen, preparations are being speedily pushed forward for the rescue of General Nobile and the castaway crew of the airship Italia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →POT-POURRI But Did Not Smell as Sweet Gwydir's Cargo Cleaning Up After The Storm
Imagine a mixture f squashed f[?]rnips, pickles, currants, oatmeal, fruits, peas, point, [?] tallow, and beer smeared over smashed cases…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Oklahoma
A message from Kansas City states that the south-west is threatened by steadily increasing floods, following heavy rains and tornadoes. Four persons are now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Skippers Praised Ferry Service in Gale
Appreciation of the manner in which the Newcastle Ferry Company carried on under severe difficulties during the recent galo was expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ELECTROCUTED Merewether Storm Fatality Newcastle Inquest
The inquest into the death of John watherston, 24. a miner. how was electrocuted at Merewether on June 14 during the cyclonic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Egyptian Storm Coalition Disrupted Election Demanded Cairo
The resignation of Gaafar Wall, the Liberal minister for war, definitely disrupts the Liberal-Wafd (Nationalist), coalition and further…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Home Arden After the Storm The Vegetable Patch
As we have had such a lot of rain lately the work usually done in the garden this time of the year is unfinished, and as soon as the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Flood Anniversary
To-day is the 61st anniversary of the great June flood of 1867, and there are many old residents remaining who remember the horrors of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violent Storm Havoc in Sydney SYDNEY
A violent storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, broke over Sydney this morning. Torrential rain at one stage fell at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Storm in Sydney Traffic Disorganised. Sydney
A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning, swept over the metropolitan area this morning, with the result that traffic was disorganised for some…
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