Samoan Cyclone. Further Details
SYDNEY, Friday. Mr. Salmon, a well-known island merchant of Sydney, has received information that the cyclone which struck Samoa was more…
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Floods & storms, 1926
573 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 29
Recent Storm in Samoa Sydney
Mr. Salmon, a well-known island merchant of Sydney, has received information that the cyclone which struck Samoa was more severe than at first reported. It is anticipated…
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Yesterday, after a fine morning, another sharp thunderstorm brake over the Tweed and Brunswick districts. For half an hour the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Immense Damage. Floods in the Rhineland. Thousands Homeless in Holland. Rescues from Roofs
COLOGNE, Thursday. Immense damage has been occasioned by floods in the Rhineland, where Dr. Severing, the Prussian Minister of Internal…
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Terrible havoc has been wrought by the floods in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, and England, and hundreds of square miles of low-lying land is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Holland River Reaches Record Height (Reuter) AMSTERDAM
While the Rhine, waal and Meuse have fallen the River Ysel has reached a record height. Thousands of people have already been rescued from attics, from roofs or…
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AMSTERDAM, Sunday.—The Pope has given 20,000 florins towards the flood relief funds. In order to prevent pillaging the authorities prohibit any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mexican Floods. Heavy Loss of Life
MEXICO CITY, Saturday. A heavy loss of life is reported and several towns have been destroyed by floods in the State of Nayarit, say the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Relief. Pope Contributes to Funds. Drastic Regulations to Prevent Pillaging
AMSTERDAM, Saturday. The Pope has given 20,000 florins towards the flood relief funds. In order to prevent pillaging the authorities prohbit any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in Flooded Creek Sydney
A Glen Innes message states that Len Hatcher, of Yelarbon, was drowned in attempting to cross Rocky Creek which was running a banker…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mexico Disaster Towns Swept by Floods (Reuter.) Mexico City
There was a heavy loss of life and several towns were destroyed by Hoods in the State of Nayarit, state the first official reports from the flooded area. The city of San…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in Europe No Relief in France (Reuter.) AMSTERDAM
The Pope has given 20,000 florins towards flood relief funds. In order to prevent pillaging the authorities have prohibited unauthorised persons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Atlantic Coast Storm. Many Persons Perish
NEW YORK, Monday. Nearly a score of persons perished, others were injured, and considerable damage was done to shipping, on the Atlantic coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Damage at Samoa Wellington (N.z.), Tnesday
The Minister for External Affairs has received a radio message from Samoa stating that only three deaths are reported as the outcome, of the hurricane on January 1. One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods Subsiding in England and on Continent London
The Thames floods are subsiding rapidly at all points and fields and roads are reemerging from the waste waters. Renter's Paris correspondent states the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Devastating Floods in Mexico (Reuter.) NOGALES (Arizona)
Fully 2000 lives were lost and a thousand families were rendered homeless as the result of the recent floods in the State of Nayarit (Mexico), said Mr. H. B…
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LONDON, Friday.—England is now getting the tail end of the storm which plunged Europe into the bitterest cold, even Rome being snow covered…
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During a thunderstorm at Gatton (Q.), on Wednesday, four inches of rain fell in an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cold Wave Follows Storm in Europe (Reuter.) LONDON
England is getting the tail-end of a storm which plunged the most of Europe in very bitter cold. Even Rome is snow covered. All liners tossed in a most severe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storms in Europe Heavy Snowfalls Work for Unemployed French Flower Crops Ruined (Reuter.) LONDON
It is many years since so much snow has fallen in London. There were further heavy falls last night and early this morning throughout England and parts of Scotland,…
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