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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1904

14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Great Storm in Goulburn

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon heralded by load peals of thunder a terrific storm bant Over Goulburn. Hail and rain descended in torrents until the street were white with…

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An Extraordinary Flood

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 3

A terrible rainstorm occurred at Bowker's Park, on the Port Elizabeth railway, Cape Colony. At Lesseyton, a village about two miles distant, and…

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Heavy Thunderstorm

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 2

A heavy storms, accompanied by much thunder and vivid lightning passed over Bowral on Monday night, 49 points of rain being recorded. The weather during the…

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Floods in South Australia

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 2

Adelaide, Tuesday—To night Petersburg, a township about 400 miles north of Adelaide, reports that the streets are flooded, owing to the heavy rain. The…

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Any Port in a Storm

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 27 April 1904 · page 4

Miss Flora Ford was on her way from Boston to her home in Philadelphia. Some people whom she knew had come with her as far as New York and had…

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Heavy Rain at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 2

Mittagong.—Since Friday last over 11 inclies rain have been registered to 9 o'clock on Monday morning. The rainfall has been the heaviest here for many years. All the…

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The Recent Storm & Rainfall

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 2

On Friday last a strong gala of wind accompanied by rain set in from the southeast, and it continued to blow fiercely and rain heavily throughout the district until…

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The Storm at Moss Vale

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 2

Moss Vale, Monday.—A fierce gale from the south-east with heavy rain set in on Friday, and continued till Sunday. The wind blew with burricane force. The…

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Nerve Storm

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 July 1904 · page 3

This is a somewhat fanciful term, for which we lack a satisfactory equivalent in English. We sometimes call the disorder 'sick headache,' and sometimes we use the word…

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After the Storm. Extensive Damage to Bowral Streets £150 a Low Estimate

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 2

As we predicted in out last issue, the damage done to the streets and footpaths by the recent storm would be extensive. A very good idea of the mischief wrought may be gleaned from the report…

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Noah and the Flood

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 30 July 1904 · page 4

The building of the ark proves that the family of Noah must have possessed and transmitted a large inheritance of knowledge and skill in arts that were common…

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Short Story. a Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 September 1904 · page 5

INTO the dark wet night the disappeared, and never once turned his head to give a last look at the white, angry, little face pressed against the window pane…

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The Cradle of the Storm

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 1

The pleasures of an ascent of the higher Alps are sometimes enhanced, sometimes marred, by an immersion in a dense cloud, which, gendered in a snowy mountain-locked…

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Terrific Gale at Bowral

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 2

The most terrific gale in the knowledge of the oldest residents raged in Bowral throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday last. The wind was very severe during the night, but With the advent of day…

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