Terrific Gales in Britain. London
There are terrific gales in Great Britain. Nine persons were killed and 23 injured through the collapse of buildings…
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Floods & storms, 1916
170 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 9
Gale Ushers in New Year. British Guns Busy in Flanders. LONDON
A gale with drenching rain ushered in the New Year on the British front, but the bowling of the wind was outdone by the roar of the great British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth Meteorology. Scattered Rain and Thunderstorms. SYDNEY
During the past 21 hours as the result of the tilting of the north-eastern an deastern high pressure the monsoonal conditions have come much into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Zeppelin Damaged in a Gale. Amsterdam
A Zeppelin flying at Namur in a gale was compelled to descend. It fouled a telegraph wire and was badly damaged. Two of the crew were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heat Wave at Singleton. Cyclonic Storm at Ravensworth. SINGLETON
Extremely hot and unpleasant, weather is prevailing, the atmosphere being particularly humid with occasional winds like blasts from a furnace. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest Last Hours on Gallipoli. In Raging Gale. Turkish Attack Heavily Repulsed. Embarkation Quietly Carried Out. (Per Reuter) London
General M[?] reports that the Turks tried a heavy attack on Helles on the 7th. After four hours intense firing in the afternoon they sprang two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Floods in Holland. Dykes Burst. Large Areas of Country Under Water. AMSTEERDAM
A great storm has resulted in the most serious floods in North Holland. The population was awakened by alarm bells and were terror stricken to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Floods in Ireland. London
Unprecedented floods burst the canal banks at Edenburry, King's County, and washed away housed, cattle and crops. The damage is estimated at £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russians Hammering the Enemy. Austro-German Losses. Many Caused by Floods and Swamps. LONDON
A Petrograd correspondent states that unabated fighting occurred on the Strypa and in the vicinity of Czernovitz. There has been heavy concentration of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth Meteorology. Sultry Weather with Thunderstorms. SYDNEY
During the past 24 hours no change of much consequence has occurred in the pressure distribution over Australia. Still monsoonal activity is an evidence,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest How They Escaped From Anzac. The Silent Moving Lines in Indian File Gale Beaten by 24 Hours. (Per Reuter.) London
A medical officer in a letter describing the evacuation of Anzac, said when the men were told they behaved splendidly and went to work with a will to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germain's Flooded Out
A thaw has rendered the German trenches in the Pinsu district untenable, flooding them. The Russians carried off the barbed wire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trenches Flooded Out. German Hardships on Eastern Front. PETROGRAD
A thaw rendered the German trenches in the Pinsk district untenable, flooding them with subterranean waters. The posts to which barbed wire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Storm at Barraba. Barraba
A terrific storm parsed over the district this afternoon 159 points being registered in 45 minutes. Many business places were flooded. The street, drains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kut-el-amara Force Holding Out. Floods Delay Operations. (Per Reuter.) London
Genernl Townsend, who is beleaguered in Kut-El-Amara, reports that he has sufficient supplies, and that his troops have not been further engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Waters Rising. Situation Serious. AMSTERDAM
Flood waters continue to rise higher than the great floods of 1825. The situation in many new areas is serious. The residents of the houses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sank in a Gale. London
It transpires that the Cunard steamer Pollentia sank in a gale while crossing the Atlantic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Shipping Disaster. Waratah Over Again. Large Vessel Believed Lost in a Storm. LONDON, Jan. 29
The Appam (7781 tons), of the Elder, Dempster Co., Ltd., carrying 160 passengers, from Daker, West Africa, due at Liverpool on the 11th instant, is six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Dam Burst in California Fifteen Miles of Country Flooded. CANDIEGA (Californa), Jan. 28
At least 50 persons were killed when the lower dam of the South California water company broke, releasing 11 [?]illion gallons of water into the Tay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horrors of Pinsk Floods. Germans Hushing Up. STOCKHOLM
Owing to heavy floods, due to the sudden thaw at Pinsk, a large number of German troops were drowned. Quantities of supplies were lost…
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