Terrific Storms Lash Europe Two Steamers Lost With All Hands England Largely in Darkness
Terrific gales continue to lash Europe and the British Isles. The known dead now total 30. North Sea shipping is seriously…
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Terrific Storms Lash Western Europe Shipping Disorganised Two Steamers Lost with All Hands; Others Aground England Largely in Darkness Twenty Aeroplanes Wrecked; Hangars Destroyed; Buildings Damaged LONDON
Terrific gales continue to lash Europe and the British Isles. The known dead now total 30. North Sea shipping is seriously disorganised. The German lightship Elbe, with a crew of 15, and the Swedish steamer Rex, the number…
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The farmer was walking across his fields during a terrific gale, when he noticed a man who seemed to have "dropped from the clouds" into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gales Continue to Europe London
Terrific gales which have raged over Europe for the last two days are now abating, but the death-roll continues to grow. Two seamen were lost from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ganmain Floodings [?]Commission’s Report. Causes Stated
The Shire Council has received of the following letter from the Secretary of the Water Consecration and [?] Coolamon, with [?] in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone in Victoria Considerable Damage to Property Melbourne
A cyclone struck Cheltenham late this afternoon, unroofing houses and blowing in shop windows. A boy was struck by flying iron and severely…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm In Melbourne Tree Uprooted by Clap of Thunder
After a loud clap of thunder, a tree in the front garden of a house in Mordialloc (Melbourne) was uprooted and shattered into hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm at Shepparton Hail Ruins Fruit Crops Melbourne
Sweeping over an area about a mile in width by three miles in length, a violent hailstorm caused serious damage in Shepparton and in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrible Flood Scenes Bucharest
Terrible scenes were witnessed in Targu Jiu and Craiova (North-west Rumania) to-day, when swirling flood waters swept coffins and corpses from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Auckland Storm Auckland (N.z.)
Auckland and many outlying centres were visited by a severe electric storm during the week-end, causing severe flooding at Hamilton. Lightning at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ganmain Flooding Overflow of Feeling at Council Meeting
Consideration of the causes of flooding at Ganmain, as reported by the representative of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms in Channel King's Programme Curtailed London
Exceptionally severe storms swept the English Channel to-day, and in consequence certain features of the programme arranged for the King's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale in Western Australia Perth
Te[?] storms dislocated telephonic communication with the eastern States for more than 16 hours. Several iron poles carrying overhead wires were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thunderstorms in Parts of State Sydney
During the week-end there were thunderstorms in many parts of the State, but mostly in the eastern half where good rainfalls were recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Missing Gale in Bass Strait Vain Search for Boat Melbourne
Two fishermen, v. Hazelwood, aged 32 years, and C. Andrews, aged 26 years, both of San Reno, are believed to have lost their lives in the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cellar Floodings
Most, of the Cootamundra premises which have cellars have been in sore trouble therewith; and the trouble has become more pronounced within the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rock F. and S. Association Flooding of Wagga Road
There was a fair attendance at a meeting of The Rock branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, presided over by Mr. J. H. Tutty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fierce Gales Sweep North Sea Eight Men Lost LONDON
Eight members of the crew of a small drifter are believed to have been drowned when the vessel sank in a heavy sea off Great Yarmouth to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Drowned Gale in North Sea London
Eight members of the crew of a small vessel which sank in heavy seas off Great. Yarmouth to-day are believed to have been drowned. A fierce…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heat Wave To Culminate in Rain and Storms SYDNEY
Mr. Mares said to-day that the prevailing heat would culminate in rain or thunderstorms, scattered at first, but extending during the next two or…
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