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Floods & storms, 1912

1,269 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 64

"Industrial Cyclone." Victorian Warning. State Enterprises and Day Labour. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 September 1912 · page 10

The annual meeting of the Victorian Employers' Federation was held to-day. The president (Mr. R. O. Blackwood), in the course of his annual address said that…

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The Grenfell Cyclone

Evening News · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 7

The prosperous town of Grenfell was devastated by a cyclonic storm on August [?]. An idea of the great damage done may be obtained from the picture of the [?] published in the…

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Devastated by Cyclone

Globe · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 3

The town at Grenfell (N.S.W.) was visited by a terrible cyclone last week. Streets were [?] up houses blown down and several persons were slightly injured. The damage is considerable…

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The Cyclone at Grenfell

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 21

Grenfell, a prosperous town in the centre of a rich agricultural, pastoral, and gold mining district, with several very fine public buildings, distant 287 miles from Sydney…

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General Cables. Foundered in a Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 10

LONDON, Monday Evening.--Several fishermen's boats foundered in a gale off the Butt of Lewis, the most northern point of the Outer Hebrides. Ten lives were lost…

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Mails Delayed. the Orsova Meets a Gale. Fremantle

The Sun · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 1

When the outward- bound mail steamer Orsova arrived in the roads at a little after daybreak yesterday the wind was blowing a moderate gale, but it was not anticipated that…

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Flood Ravages at Norwich

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 September 1912 · page 10

LONDON, Tuesday.--A number of unsafe buildings have been pulled down at Norwich and 100 have been condemned as unfit for human habitation…

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Cloud-bursts and Floods. Pennsylvania Swept

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 September 1912 · page 7

PITTSBURG, Tuesday Evening.--Cloud-bursts which have occurred throughout Pennsylvania are responsible for the drowning of 36 people, whose bodies were recovered…

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The Norwich Floods. Tradesmen's Losses, £200,000

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 September 1912 · page 7

LONDON Wednesday.--The Norwich Distress Fund amounts to £13,000. The president of the Chamber of Commerce estimates the loss to tradesmen at £200,000…

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The Industrial Cyclone

The Sun · Sunday 8 September 1912 · page 18

It is an extraordinary thing that in a young country like this, with enormous natural possibilities and great scope for enterprise, there should be any doubt about the outlook, or…

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A Westerly Gale

Evening News · Monday 9 September 1912 · page 2

Squalls up to us [?] an hour burst over Sydney on Saturday, the hardest blow being from the north-west at 1s p.m. The gale raged with more or loss tu[?] throughout the…

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Squalls Up to 53 Miles an Hour. Saturday's Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 September 1912 · page 8

Squalls up to 53 miles an hour burst over the city during Saturday's storm. The hardest blow was from the north-west, at 1.5 p.m. The gale raged with more or less fury throughout…

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A New Comet. Mr. Gale's Discovery. Mysteries of the Heavens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 9

The discovery of an unexpected comet of the 6th magnitude, just visible to the trained naked eye, was made by Mr. Walter F. Gale, of Waratah, on the evening of Sunday last…

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Swampy Yard. Rose Bay Residents Flooded

Evening News · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 6

Seventeen residents of [?] Rose Bay, presented a petition to the Woollahra Council on Monday night, stating that there is great damage and depreciation of our…

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Belubula River in Flood

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 2

The flood in the Belubula River (near Canowindra) last week had the effect of destroying a number of rabbits that had burrowed into the embankment,…

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Flood of Imports. Federal Government Blamed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The tariff was largely discussed at a meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-night, and the Government was blamed for failing to frame such a tariff…

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Gale in Victoria. Shipping Hampered

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Rough conditions reigned on the Victorian coast to-day, and interfered considerably with shipping. Heavy westerly gales raged throughout the day…

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Storm-Swept. Disastrous Hurricane. Fishing Boats Missing. a Schooner Wrecked

Evening News · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 8

SAINT JOHN'S (New Soundland).—Tuesday Evening—A fierce hurricane, which swept along the coast of Labrador, left death and disaster in its train…

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The Stadium. Jack Bead V. Hock Keys. a Blithering Battle. It Goes the Full Twenty. Read Declared the Winner. Amidst a Storm of Hoots. "Sportsman" Considers the Referee Correct

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 6

It has been the talk of town all during the week, and it seems to "Sportsman" that three-fourths of the men around town are of the firm opinion that Hock won the…

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Death and Devastation. Big Floods in China

Evening News · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 10

SHANGHAI, Tuesday.—letters from Weachow state that the foods which occurred there [?] the 11th [?] caused each a rise in the river as in [?] a tidal wave…

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