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Floods & storms, 1910

1,565 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 79

The Seine Subsiding. Paris Saved From Another Flood. Paris

The Sun · Thursday 17 November 1910 · page 1

The waters of the Seine began to subside to-day, and It is now believed that the crisis is over, and that all further danger of another flood has passed…

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The Motor Car As a Life-saver During Japanese Floods

The World's News · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 9

Rushing boats to the inundated districts of Tokio. The small craft were mounted on motor cars, and hurried through the halfflooded streets of the city. Hundreds of lives were saved by these methods…

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Encounter a Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 November 1910 · page 8

PERTH, Sunday.--The postmaster at Lagrande Bay, which lies between Broomo and Point Headland, reported this afternoon that a hurricane had been raging since the…

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Yesterday's Gale. Mishaps on the Harbor

Evening News · Monday 21 November 1910 · page 4

During the past few days squally conditions prevailed over the greater part of New South Wales. Between 6 and 7 p.m. on Saturday. a north-east wind freshened into squalls of the…

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A Fresh Gale. Velocity Up to 50 Miles. Disparity in Temperatures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1910 · page 10

Squally conditions prevailed over the greater part of the State during the past few days, the winds at first being between north-west and north-east, with warm temperatures, and…

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Western Australia. Storm Causes a Fire. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 7

During an electrical storm yesterday evening Mr. E. M'Court, who lived with his wife in a three-roomed weatherboard cottage at North Perth, was alarmed by the crackling of…

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A Big Thunderstorm. Blacks Badly Scared. One Aborigine Runs Six Miles. Bega

The Sun · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 1

There was a terrible storm here yesterday afternoon, and many people got bad frights. During the progress of the disturbance a big streak of lightning played over the town,…

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The Weather. Patchy Rain in the Suburbs Storm at Parramatta

Evening News · Wednesday 23 November 1910 · page 9

Commonwealth Bureau forecast for New South Wales, issued at noon to-day for the next 24 hours:—Northerly winds; generally fine and warm to hot, broken by isolated thunderstorms…

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Peaeling Disaster Many Luggers Destroyed. Gale at Broome. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 9

The Minister for External Affairs has received a telegram from the Sub-Collector of Customs at Broome, Mr. Huggins, stating that 60 pearling boats had been blown on the…

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A Presbyterian Omen. John Knox and a Thunderstorm

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 35

It will be within the recollection of our (London "Tablet's") readers that during the past summer there was held in Edinburgh a meeting of the various Protestant…

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Thunderstorms in the East. Some Good Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 8

Thunderstorms have resulted in scattered rains along the coast, and some light showers on the central and southern taolelands. Although Sydney only had a few drops, some…

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The Broome Cyclone

Evening News · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 16

Later reports from Broome, W.A., state that up to dale the bodies of 10 Asiatics have been recovered. One was found on the foreshore, one at Fisherman's Bend, one at South…

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Imprisoned in Capsized Ship. Exciting Adventure in a Gale

The World's News · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 13

One of the most remarkable incidents in connfction with the rccent gale over the English coast occurred in Dover Harbor, when an Admiralty dredger capsized. One member of the…

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Presentation to the Premier. a Calm After the Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 15

The social room in the Trades-hall last night was crowded. The women's organising committee of the Labor executive held a conversazione, at which a gold Labor emblem in the…

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After the Storm Mr. M'gowen at the Trades Hall. "These Disgruntled Wretches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 16

From out the stress and storm of a fiercelycontested censure motion the Premier, the Attorney-General, and the Vice-President of the Executive Council drifted to the congenial…

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Escape From Sing Sing. Midnight Drama in Storm. Stirring Account of Convicts' Desperate Escape

The Sun · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 15

At 3 o'clock in the morning of October 7 the siren of the famous Sing Sing Prison, 30 miles up the Hudson from New York, began to screech like a soul in agony. Rain was…

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Disastrous Floods in Alaska

Evening News · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 8

VANCOUVER, Friday.—Floods, due to the loosening of water inside a huge glacier, swept down the Bearing River Valley, Alaska. Minerscabins were overwhelmed, and the fate of the…

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Floods in Alaska. Miners Swept Away. Vancouver, Nov. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 15

Floods, due to the loosening of waters inside a huge glacier, swept down the Behring River, Alaska. Miners cabins were overwhelmed, aud the fate of the inmates…

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Remarkable Flood. in Behring River Valley. Prospectors Missing. Icebergs Racing Seawards

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 13

VANCOUVER, Friday.--Floods, due to the loosening of the waters inside a huge glacier, have swept down the Behring River Valley, with the result that many miners' cabins…

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A Warehouse Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 15

A considerable amount of damage was done to the premises of Messrs. Moran and Cato, Ltd., wholesale grocers, in Clarence-street, on Thursday night, by a water-tap being left turned on…

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