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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 19
HONOLULU, Thursday: Rescue ships at dawn today were standing off the two sections of the wrecked American tanker Fort Dearborn, preparing to make a desperate bid to snatch the crew from death. The Fort Dearborn (6000 tons)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HONOLULU, March 14, A.A.P—A gale is frustrating attempts to rescue the crow of the American tanker Fort Dearborn, which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, March 14, A.A.P.—Many-rivers in the southern counties burst their banks when locks were usable to cope with flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Friday: Three babies, a woman and two men have been drowned in the floods which are hitting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 16.—Flooding of the Metropolitan Water Board's filter beds, following the great thaw, has deprived more than a million people in nine London districts of pure water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 16. A.A.P.—Rats swarmed into houses and attacked unguarded food supplies when flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 17.A.A.P.—At least 13 people lost their lives and many were injured when a hurricane swept Southern England last night, causing widespread damage. The wind at times reached a velocity of 98 miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 17. A.A.P.—Rescuers in the flooded areas of Britain are using ancient motor-boats and river craft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday.—Floods now extend over thousands of square miles of England and it is possible to travel by boat from the North Sea to the Irish Channel. THE death roll in Sunday night's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEERLIN, March 18. A.A.P.—Six German civilians were killed and 12 others injured in Berlin and Hamburg yesterday, when the walls of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tuesday: Panic aboard the tanker, Fort Dearbon, which broke in two in a raging storm near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 18. A.A.P.— The Thames Conservancy Board has ceased to predict how the floods night develop. The record flood levels…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 19.—Anxiety is growing as the flood waters continue to spread. More than 30 counties in England and Wales are now affected by floods and over 300 roads are impassible in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 19.— A lorry driver, Thomas Wakefield, swam 100 yards through the torrential waters of the River Don…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wednesday. — Only five of England's 40 counties have not yet been affected by floods which were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, March 20 A.A.P.— Troops are fighting a terrific battle to fill a gap 25 yards wide in the Great Ouse, through which torrents of water are surging at Erith, on the border of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RIVER THAMES OVERFLOWS.—The thawing snow and ice in England has caused the River Thames to overflow its banks. Here is the flooded towpath at Putney taken more than a week ago. The position has since become worse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Friday: The liner, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in New York today after fighting her way through one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, March 21. A.A.P.—Reinforcement troops were sent to-day to southern Norfolk, the latest danger point in the Fen floods, where hundreds of soldiers and German prisoners are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Saturday:, An "assault fleet" of eight Neptune amphibious tanks crossed flooded fens at Earith, Cambridgeshire, last night in a dramatic bid to close a gap in the south bank of the Great Ouse…
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