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Floods & storms, 1913

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Terrific Gales. Rescue Party Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 13

VANCOUVER, Thursday Evening. -- A great gale is raging along the Northern Pacific coasts. The mail steamer Niagara is having a rough passage…

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Violent Gale. Ship's Apprentice Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 17

A gale of hurricane fury struck the barque Dumfriesshire off the Tasmanian coast on her voyage from Delagoa Bay to Sydney. The vessel arrived here yesterday and the captain…

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Severe Gale. Raging on Pacifc Coast. Vancouver. Nov. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 21

A great gale la raging on the Northern Pacific coast, and the steamer Niagara is having a rougb passage. A passenger [?] washed off the steamer…

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Heavy Gale. Off the Australian Coast. Topsail Yards Fall. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 21

The ship Cumberland, in command of Captain Barfield, arrived in port to-day from Buenos Ayres. The vessel took her departure from South America on September 2[?]…

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Another Triumph for Marconi The Fight Against Fire and Storm to Save the Human Freight of the Volturno

Globe · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 7

The Volturno almost enveloped in smoke, and the little boat from the relief vessel tossed about in the angry [?]…

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Terrific Storms. Raging in North Pacific

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 December 1913 · page 9

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--The steamer Nile reports terrific storms in the Pacific. The lives of several passengers were endangered by terrific waves breaking over the ship. The…

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Terri[?]c Storms at Sea. San Francisco, Nov. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1913 · page 10

The steamer Nile, from the East, reports having encountered terrif[?] storms in the Pacific. The lives of several passengers were…

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Storm in the West. Crops Devastated

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1913 · page 21

PERTH, Tuesday. -- Heavy thunderstorms, with hailstones as large as eggs, devastated the crops on Saturday night at Jennaberring. The farmers lost all their crops, and houses…

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The Terms of Surrender. Chapter Xx. the Passing of the Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 December 1913 · page 6

Marten's hand closed round the butt of the pistol, and during a few seconds Power thought that he was a doomed man. Even in England, a land where deeds of violence are not…

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Cyclone at Burrowa

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 10

BURROWA, Wednesday.--A cyclone was experienced here about 4 o'clock this morning, lasting about 30. minutes. No serious damage was done. A few chimneys were blown down,…

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Wind Storm at Molong. Crops Damaged

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 11

MOLONG, Wednesday.--At 4 p.m. yesterday, the thermometer at the post office registered 103deg. Many private ones recorded 109. shortly afterwards a terrific wind and dust…

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Disastrous Floods. Wave Thirty Feet, High. Belton (Texas), Dec. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 9

A flood wave 30 feet high swept down Nolan Creek without warning, and 50 houses were swept away. Ten people are reported to have been…

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Motor Accident. Blinded by a Dust Storm. Taree

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 8

A motor mt accident occurred on the Tine-nes-road yesterday A car newly acquired by the North Coast Touring Company was being Brought from sydney the driver having a…

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Zabern Affair. a Storm in the Reichstag Government Assailed. Berlin, Dec. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 11

The most tempestuous sitting in the history of the Reichstag took place last night, when the Government dealt with an interpellation in regard to the trouble between the military…

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Masses of Red Dust. As in the Old Days. Terrific Storm at Broken-hill

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 8

BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--A terrific dust-storm raged over Broken-hill just before 5 o'clock tills afternoon, a reminder of the early days when storms were frequent, but only on…

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The Texan Floods. Thirteen Lives Lost. How People Are Fed

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 9

DALLAS (TEX.). Thursday Evening. it is known that up to the present 13 lives have been lost by the floods which occurred here yesterday and it is feared that this total…

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Disastrous Floods. Havoc in America. Fifteen Thousand Homeless. Dallas (Texas), Dec. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 11

The flood waters of the Colorado River are still spreading, and there are 15,000 people homeless within an area of 200 miles by 100. Many scores have taken refuge in…

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Great Floods. Do Enormous Damage. Villagers Cut Off

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 9

DALLAS, Texas, Wednesday Evening.--Great floods, due to a sudden rise in the Colorado River, have occurred. Seven people have been drowned and farmers' crops have been…

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Storm at Broken-hill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 13

BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- Yesterday's storm did damage around Broken-hill. Many roofs were removed, outhouses blown over, and fences razed…

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Wall of Water 40Ft. High. Gale at Addrossan (S.a.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 13

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- On Monday morning a gale blew and three walls of a hall in course of construction at Petersville were blown down. One of Mr. E. Wilson's sheds was unroofed…

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