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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 19
The whole population of Santa Venera watched two nuns slowly engulfed by molten lava from Mount Etna. The two nuns were isolated on rocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Residents of Tudor-street Extended, Hamilton, may at last look forward to relief from floods. Last week the Mayor of Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forty-one persons are reported to have been killed and 150 injured in a violent cyclone in the vicinity of Villa Maria, in the province of Cordoba…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the South of England was swept by the worst storm for many years, the wind raging at 100 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A disastrous accident occurred in the British Channel yesterday, when the lifeboat crew, which started in the teeth of it most violent gale, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among American newspaper and shipping officials there is a tremendous drive to capitalise the Vestris disaster into a bad advertisement against British shipping. The Federal Attorney, Mr. Tuttle, has demanded the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fierce gale swept England on Friday afternoon. Velocities of 100 miles per hour were registered on the coast, and an inland velocity of 90…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death roll following the storm which accept England and Wales on Friday new numbers 20, in addition hundreds were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In addition to the 20 people killed ashore in Friday's great storm, it is feared that the crow of eleven members was lost when the steamer Eltham, 687…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It in reported from Kansan City that floods at the week-end in the States of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, claimed at least nine lives, and caused property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma have claimed 14 lives in two days. The loss of property may reach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The vessel is riding on an even keel for the first time for many days. Chief Officer McGuinness says, "We can thank the albatross, which came aboard last night, for a change of luck. We…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Overflowing streams are spreading death and destruction in five States. The Mississippi is breaking its banks alongside the borders of Illinols and Missouri,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A scheme, estimated to cost £6750, to solve permanently the problem of stormwater flooding on Shepherd's Hill and on to the Merewether Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assisted by a gale, a Dutch Fokker air-liner, driven by two Bristol-Jupiter 500-h.p. engines, flow from London to Rotterdam in the record time of 68…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A heavy storm struck Brisbane and suburbs to-day, shortly after noon, and between two and three inches of rain were recorded. Large hailstones fell in some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Carriboo, a cargo steamer, which left East London on Friday in a terrific storm, ran on the rocks 35 miles south. She was refloated by her own steam, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another great wind and rain storm swept across from the Atlantic on Friday. London again had the full force of the gale, which blew at times in gusts of 80…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wireless messages from the steamer Maryland, which is enroute to Amapala (Honduras) states that Mr. Hoover's goodwill tour will be delayed for 24…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the recent gale there were several fatalities in various parts of the country from falling trees and tiles. Channel and the Irish Sea services were…
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