Caught in the Gale. Damage On- the Maheno
The Union liner Maheno arrived today from Auckland after a very rough passage. Her officers denied that anything serious in the way of weather was. encountered, but…
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A Son of the Immortals. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Ix. Mutterings of Storm
Before Joan's carriage had travelled a hundred yards it was halted by a loud-voiced command. An officer, galloping at the head of a detachment of cavalry, sought news of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Waters. Girl's Presence of Mind. Saves Many Lives
SYRACUSE (New York), Thursday Evening.-- [?] hundred village people have been rendered [?] through the collapse of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Glebe Mystery. What William Gilchrist Says. Bendigo Woman's Body Found in a Storm-water Channel
On Sunday morning early, a young woman, aged 21, named Clarice Ada Barker, a native of Bendigo, Victoria, who rented a furnished room at 51 Glebe-street, Glebe,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Floods in America
The river dykes broke near Beulah, Missouri, U.S.A., and a heavy volume of water swept over the country. Many persons were drowned. Six thousand refugees from the recent floods are still…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dam Collapses. Valley Flooded. New York
The dam at Mineville broke and flooded the valley below. Fortunately there were no people killed, because, owing to the quick work of a telephone girl, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Smashed by a Cyclone."
The inquiry at Fremantle into the loss of the Koombana brought forth evidence from Captain Upjohn that in his opinion, the boat could not have turned turtle but that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lost Koombana. the Inquiry. Vessel Smashed Up by a Cyclone. Impossible to Turn Turtle Fremantle
At the Fremantle Police Court yesterday a Court of Marine Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the total loss at sea of the Koombana, on or about March 20 last,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone's Death Track. New York
At least fifty persons were killed and twice as many injured in a cyclone by which Oklahoma State was swept during Saturday and Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rough Seas and Gales. Rainfall in the City
The squalls which developed on the coast yesterday were accompanied by heavy rough seas and southerly gales, and the reports received from the various signalmasters this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale on the Coast. Heavy Southerly Blow. Rough Seas in Places
A southerly gale of considerable fury developed along the coast yesterday, and reached the city shortly before noon. The storm was reported at Eden and Green Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Girl Factory Hand's Mysterious Death. Body in Storm-water Channel. Tragedy Feared
Shortly after 1 a.m. one morning last week, a young woman, Clarice Alta Barker (21), employed as a factory hand, and residing in a furnished room at Globe, Sydney, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Broken Port. Peregrine Takes a List. the Hold Flooded.. Vessel Aground in Hobson's Bay. Melbourne
Scarcely had the Howard Smith liner Peregrine commenced her trip to Queensland ports, via Sydney, to-day when it was brought to an abrupt and startling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Barque in a Gale
NEWCASTLE, Thursday,--The French barque La Rochefoucauld arrived to-day, after a voyage which occupied 60 days, in the course of which very rough weather was experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Barque in a Gale. Runs Under Bare Poles. Newcastle
The French barque La Rochefaucald, which arrived to-day from Santos, had a very rough passage. Captain Oilvier states that when five or six days out from Santos the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Floods in America
TORENAS (LOUISIAN[?]). Thursday.—The leaves guarding the country towns along the banks of the Missippi have broken in several places, and, as clever is rising rapidly,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →American Floods. Further Disaster Threatened. Torenas (Lonisiana), May 2
The levees guarding the country towns along the banks of the Mississippi have broken in several places, and, as the river is rising rapidly, the wholesale destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Berlin "Tube" Flooded
Half a mile of that section of Berlin's underground electric railway which traverses the centre of the city was recently under water in consequence of the caving in of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Beaten. Steamer Kurow Has Trying Passage From Auckland
Some idea of the tempestuous weather raging in the Tasman Sea of late may be inferred from the fact that the speed of the Union liner Kurow was reduced to three knots per hour…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Late Gable News. Received To-day. The Mississippi Floods. Hundred Thousand Homeless
NEW ORLEANS, Friday Evening—The conditions on the lower Mississippi caused by the flood are appalling. Over a hundred thousand person are reported…
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