The Mississippi Floods
The latter end of last week terrible floods were reported along the banks of the Mississippi, an Illinois cable stated: The city is surrounded with water and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1912
216 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 11
The Mississippi Floods. Memphis (Tennessce), Thursday
Reports- everywhere indicate tho subsidence of the floods. A serious feature is an outbreak of fever among the refugees in the camps…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mississippi Floods. Thousand Square Miles Country Flooded. Families Homeless and Desolate
The west levee of the Mississippl broke near Alsatia and resulted in great damage to property. A thousand aquare miles of country are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Memorable Wrecks. the Record of a Decade. Fire, Storm, and Collison
Notwithstanding the advance made in all matters, pertaining to navigation; the present decade has been marked by a grim series, of calamitous misadventures at sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fierce Gale. Factory in Course of Construction Collapses. Botany Tram Has Narrow Escape. SYDNEY,Monday
During the fierce gale which prevailed this morning a large storey factory in the course of construction at Waterloo was blown down, and there were several narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mis Issippi Floods. River Dykes Break Near Beulah Two Hundred Persons Drowned Six Thousand Refugees in Camps. New York
The Missouri River dykes broke near Beulah and a heavy volume of water swpet over the country. Many persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Falls Predicted. Sydney
The Weather Bureau predicts the possibility of flood downfalls within the next 24 hours, and strong gales and rain coastwise with heavy falls expected over the central…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breaking the Record. the Culwalla in a Gale Sydney
Mr. Marks,who left Sydney on Saturday last in the yacht Culwulia III.,arrived at Brisbane last night after a very rough trip.The boat encountered a very rough…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scientific Notes. Absorbing Floods
Absorbing flood water by storage wells is a plan French engineers are considering. Much damage was formerly done by inundations on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Barwon. a Story of a Great Flood
The Barwon River flows south-westward from the borders of Queensland, through the north of New South Wales, till at Bourke, the thriving capital of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Storm at Hobart. Gable End of Terrace of Houses Blown Out. a Family Have Miraculous Escape Sydney, Monday
During a heavy storm at Hobart on Friday night, the gable end of a terrace of houses was blown out, and the debris smashed through the roof of a cottage on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Terror-stricken. Further Floods Feared. St. Louis
The heavy rains the continuing, flooding tho crocks and rivers.. The Mississippi is again rising and farmers the terrorstricken, fearing a repetitlon of their late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. Wholesale Destruction of Property. Many Persons Missing. London
The levees guarding.the country-towns along the banks of the Mississippi, have broke. The river is rising rapidly and there has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. Hundred Thousand Persons Homeless. New Orleans
The flood conditions in this lower Mississippi are appalling. Over a hundred thousand persons are reported to be homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mississippi Floods. Reports Becoming More Grave. a Thousand Destitute in One District. Xicw Oiu.ka.v.s. Monilivv
Flood reports at Torras grow, in gravity. The people are being swept off the roofs of their houses, the water exceeding the height of the telegraph poles. Several persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Floods. LOWA,friday
Terrirte electric storms visited the distrlct Houses ware flooded In rainstorms. The lightning struck a warehouse, starting a fire. The warehouse was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destructive Cyclone Hundreds of Dwellings Demolished. Budapest
A cyclone swept Alsofsher country and destroyed several villages. 450 dwellings and 200 vineyards and buildings were demolished. Six persons were killed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mississippi Floods. Huge Inundations. New Orleans
Another breach of the Mississippi levees has deluged len square miles, and sixty thousand person are homeless. No lives were lost, but the damage was enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Camp Flooded. Santiago
A mining. camp in Gatica. Antofagasta Territory, Chill, has been flooded, forty being killed and injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plenty and Shortage. Floods in Manitoba. Winnipeg
At Manitoba the rivers are flooded and dozens of villages submerged. The city of Moosa.Jaws power plant was destroyed. and the city is in darkness was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →