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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 19
A revised list of the number drowned in London's devastating flood shows a total of fourteen. Hundreds of homeless and scantily-clad…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods which devastated the low-lying areas of London, drowning 14 people, were caused by a tidal wave, according to Lord Desborough, president of the Thames Conservancy. An official inquiry will probably be held into the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A log jam at Downtown Bridge in Rochester. It was dynamited out after the city employees had failed to untangle it with a crane and hoisting apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lord, Desborough, chairman of the Thames, Conservancy Board, has expressed the opinion that the London floods were not due to Thames' waters,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the opening of the inquest on the bodies of 10 of the victims of the Thames [?] the Coroner said that the reason why th river wall gave way [?] proved. THE Coroner for the Westminster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The full story was told at the coroner's court at Fulham to-day of how Miss Madge Franckeiss, a girl of 20, rescued her aunt and boy cousin from the basement of a flat which was flooded by the Thames last Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A night spent running before a howling gale; three days have to in mid ocean while a hurricane whipped the seas mountains high; meals that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The extent to which the flood havoc has gripped the heart of the country is revealed by the spontaneous response to appeals for relief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →After making personal inquiries in connection with the recent flood, the Premier (Mr. Baldwin) has summoned a conference of the heads of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hundreds of drowned pets—cats, dogs, and birds—were collected in the flooded area of the Thames when the Humane Society's van…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After personal inquiries into the damage caned by the London flood, Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minister, has summoned a conference of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported from Rio de Janeero that the City of Diamantina has been destroyed by floods. It is stated that over a thousand houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The drainage of the south-eastern portion of the Wickham municipality is causing the Wickham Council concern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the inquest on the 10 flood victims, who were drowned when the Thames overflowed its banks on January 7, the jury stated in their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The engineer of Wickham municipality (Mr. Smith) inspected the pumping plant recently installed by the Carrington Council to combat the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During last night's tropical storm, when 48,000 tons of rain to the square mile fell on Melbourne an electric train entering Spencer-street Station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific tornado, which swept over Waratah and Mayfield about 1 p.m. to-day, wrecked or partly destroyed fifteen houses. In Dora-street seven cottages were unroofed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after one o'clock yesterday afternoon the Newcastle district was visited by a violent wind and bail storm. The severity of the storm was chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dense crowds of people thronged the cyclone-stricken area in Mayfield-Waratah last night So thick was the crowd that Waratah Council's traffic inspector had to be sent out to control the traffic, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In addition to the £50,000 subscribed to the Lord Mayor's fund on behalf of the sufferers in the recent London floods, more than £40,000 has been raised in…
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