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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1913

11 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Gales in Great Britain

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 2

A violent gale, accompanied by heavy snow, is being experienced in the north of England. The telegraph lines and railway…

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Violent Storm in Sydney

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 6

Saturday's cyclonic storm was the most severe ever known in Sydney, the city being in the centre of is. The maximum wind velocity recorded…

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Aviator Killed. Flight in a Gale. a Dive to Death

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 3

Mr Edward Petre, the well-known aviator, met his death on Tuesday in attempting a non-stop flight from the Brooklands Aerodrome to Edinburgh…

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Saturday's Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 2

The rainfall recorded at Moss Vale up to last Sunday morning was nearly four inches. In other parts of the district it was much…

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Gale Causes Disaster. Fourteen Sinkers Killed. Survivors' Ordeal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 3

Fourteen men lost their lives at the Bolsovor Colliery Company's now pit on Lord Savile's estate at Rufford, near Mansfield, Notts, late on Friday…

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The Floods

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 6

Singleton has had one of the most damaging floods in its history. Most of the streets were flooded. The town looks desolate. Business has been…

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Mr. Wragge's Forecast. More Floods

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 6

Mr. Clement Wragge supplies the following special forecast dated Broken Hill, May 20, 6 pm.—"A big An[?]rotic disturbance, named Aensan, is…

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When Winds Blow. Great Gales Scientifically Considered

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 6

Most of us are apt to look on a storm as simply a strong wind blowing straight from one place to another. It is not so at all, for a…

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Storm in a Tea Cup

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 2

At Tuesday night's meeting of the local council Aid. Webb asked the mayor what redress an alderman had when he sat at the council…

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Sighed for Higher Life. Swain Wanted Ring Back. Storm of the "Glad Eye."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 September 1913 · page 4

That, she should start the new year with, a new man and send him back his ring was the chilling suggestion made by a butcher to a lady's maid, upon whom he had…

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The Big Flood

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 December 1913 · page 2

"It'll be an all right flood." Tom and I ran down to the river bank, to see if the water had started to come over the big tree stump near the drain mouth on…

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