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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

1,565 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 79

Trains in Storms

Evening News · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 3

An American Tramway Company is instructing its employees in the safest methed of running their cars during storm. The motormen are ordered to let the cars coast as…

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The Storm Damaged Churches

The St George Call · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 6

Our front page illustrations of last week depicted the damage done to the new Church of England at West Kogarah, and the Church of England in…

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The Late Gale and Christian Charity. To the Editor of the "Call."

The St George Call · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 6

Sir, The Rockdale Council having stayed proceedings of St. David's Church, Arncliffe, the matter was brought before…

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Late Cable News. Received Today. Terrible Floods in Japan. Towns and Villages Swept Away. Many Deaths. Immense Damage

Evening News · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 8

LONDON, Friday Evening.—Floods in Japan have washed away towns and villages, and 30,000 houses in Lower Tokio are submerged. The railways are interrupted, and starvation…

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Flood and Fire. Immense Damage in Japan. Tokio

The Sun · Saturday 13 August 1910 · page 1

Reports are still coming to hand of the imense destruction of property for which the floods throughout Japan have been responsible…

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Floods in Japan. Villages Washed Away Starvation Threatening. London, Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 August 1910 · page 7

Floods in Japan have washed away towns and villages, and there have been many deaths. Railways have been interrupted…

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The Tokio Floods

Evening News · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 6

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The floods at Tokio, Japan, are subsiding. Three hundred and eighty-five people are known to be dead, and 500 are missing. Thousands are exposed…

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Floods in Japan. Great Destruction. Starvation Threatened. London, Aug. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 9

Floods in Japan have washed away towns and villages, and have been responsible for many deaths. The railways are interrupted…

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Second Edition. the Tokio Floods. Great Loss of Life. Protecting Dam Bursts. London, Aug. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 8

The floods at Tokio are subsiding, three hundred and eighty-five people are known to be dead, and 500 are missing. Thousands are exposed to rain and hunger…

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Thousands Perish. the Floods in Japan. an Appalling Calamity. Disaster and Desolation Everywhere. Tens of Thousands Homeless and Starving. No Organised System of Relief. Tokio

The Sun · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 1

Although 3000 people are estimated to have perished in the great floods by which so large a part of Japan has been devastated, the actual number of deaths cannot possibly be…

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Disastrous Floods in Japan. Towns and Villages Washed Away. 30,000 Houses Submerged. Starvation Threatened

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Devastating floods are reported from Japan. Many towns and villages have been washed away, and a number of deaths…

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Warship Founders. Turkish Cruiser Lost in a Gale. Fate of the Crew Unknown. London

The Sun · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 5

A Turkish cruiser is reported to have foundered during a gale off the Turkish coast. In the messages received by Lloyde nothing is said as to the fate of the crew…

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Floods in Japan

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 4

Destructive floods are reported from Japan. Thousands of houses have been washed away and many arc homeless. Latest particulars state that at Tokio…

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The Tokio Floods. 150,000 Sufferers. London, Aug. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 7

By the floods in Tokio there are 150,000 sufferers. Little inconvenience has been experienced in the foreign quarter…

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The Floods in Japan. 150,000 Sufferers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--In Tokio there are 150,000 sufferers by the floods. But little inconvenience was experienced in the foreign quarter…

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The Tokio Floods. the Loss of Life. Official Report

Evening News · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 10

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—Official estimates state that 112 persons were drowned in the floods in Japan, and that 160,000 houses were flooded, and 3900 destroyed…

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News of the World by Our Independent Cable Service. the Toll of the Floods. 1200 Dead or Missing in Japan. Tokio

The Sun · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 1

Latest Investigations show that 1200 persons are either dead or missing as a result of tho floods. Most of the foreign missionaries and their…

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Flood of Blue Papers. Ten Summonses Against a Landlord

The Sun · Wednesday 17 August 1910 · page 4

In the Central Summons Court to-day, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., a property-owner named J. B. Thallon responded to ten separate summonses issued against him by…

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The Floods in Japan. Great Destitutiqn. London, Aug. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 9

Official estimates state that 112 people were drowned by the floods in Japan, 150,000 houses were flooded, and 3900 destroyed…

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Japan's Calamity. Half a Million Flood Victims. Heavy Damage to Rice Crop Tokio

The Sun · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 5

Upwards of 500,000 people are enduring the greatest privations as a result of the destitution to which they have been reduced by the late floods…

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