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Floods & storms, 1914

1,087 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 55

Storm on Lake Superior

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 8

CHICAGO, Saturday.--Twelve bodies have been recovered along the shores of Lake Superior as the result of a terrific storm. Much wreekage has come ashore. Including…

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Fierce Storm. Houses Unroofed. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 8

A cyclonic storm swept through Singleton yesterday afternoon, accompanied by torrential rain. Though it broke and uprooted great trees as well as tearing off countless…

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Terrific Storm. on Lake Superior. Chicago, Nov. [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 10

Twelve bodies have been recovered along the shores of Lake Superior as the result of a terrific storm. Much wreckage has been washed ashore, including lifebelts from [?]…

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Storm in Melbourne. Huge Trees Uprooted. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 10

A terrific cyclone swept over the township of Whitfield and district this afternoon, causing the greatest consternation, and doing a good deal of damage…

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A Horror in Flanders Germans Report 15,000 British Drowned Overwhelmed in a Canal Flood Neither Confirmed Nor Contradicted by the War Office

The Farmer and Settler · Monday 23 November 1914 · page 1

All the recent news from Flanders has been good. The fighting at the northern end of the long Franco-Belgian frontier line—where the British have been chiefly enguged—has been in flat country, largely below sea level, intersected by a perfect labyrinth of…

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Storms on the Mountains

Evening News · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 4

For the past month scarcely a day has passed but there has [?] a thunderstorm on the [?] About 4 o'clock yesterday, after hot morning, [?]…

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Storm at Orange

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 8

ORANGE, Monday.--During a terrific storm this afternoon, the Bloomfield Public school was struck by lightning and the chimney was demolished. The school children recived…

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Swimmer's Adventure Surfing in a Gale

Evening News · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 8

Mr. F. C. V. Lane, the well-known champion swimmer, had a pe[?] adventure during the gale on Sunday last. He was one of a party camping at Chinaman's Beach. Tuggerah…

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Storms at Condobolin. Signs of Drought Breaking

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 9

A Condobolin correspondent writes: Patchy storms have been falling during the last 6 weeks and now there are respectable areas of land…

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A Cyclone in Victoria. Hugo Troop Uprooted

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 3

A terrific cyclone swept over the Victorian township of Whirfield district on Sunday afternoon, causing the greatest consternation and doing…

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Fierce Storm at Singleton. Wreckage In the Town

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 3

A cyclonic storm swept through Singleton on Saturday afternoon accompanied by torrential rain. Though it broke and unrooted great trees, tore off…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damages Country Town. Houses Unroofed; Trees, Uprooted. Flying Iron and Battens. Taree, Tuesday

Evening News · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 6

A storm, the most severe and damaging that has been experienced on the Manning for many years, occurred on Saturday night. A wind of hurricane force raised clouds of thick dust, and…

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Snow and Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 5

CALAIS, Monday.--An expanse of Arctic whiteness covers Northern France and Belgium. Ice is forming on the canals, and the frozen ground is making entrenchment…

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East Sydney A.A.C. CARNIVAL Good Sport in a Southerly Gale—C. T. Ferguson Champion with the Javelin

Referee · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 6

The East Sydney A.A.C. brought their annual track and field meet to a conclusion on Saturday under the most unfavorable circumstances, so far as weather was concerned. It…

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Law Report. High Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith, Mr. Justice Barton, and Mr. Justice Isaacs.) Newtown Property Dispute. Barry v Holder and Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 9

Argument was continued in this [?]se, which remains part heard…

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Violent Thunderstorm. Much Damage in the Suburbs. Devastation at Lindfield. All Lines Blown Down. Telegraphic Interruptions Devastation in the South

Evening News · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 7

According to a message received from Goulburn this afternoon, a terrific thunderstorm passed over the between Goulburn and Yass at midday…

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The War From Day to Day the Open Dykes a Flooded Battleground Lying Messages From the Berlin Factory. the Disaster Near Dixmude

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 1

It was with some degree of hesitation that the "Farmer and Settler" published in Monday's issue the sensational news that 16,000 British troops had been…

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Floods and Blizzards

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 1

The British troops in Flanders arc suffering inconveniences and enduring hardships from the vagaries of the weather, of which only the faintest…

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Flooding the Country

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 13

In order to prevent the advance of the Allies, the Germans inundated the country round Ostend. Heavy rains and snowstorms in the west of Belgium destroyed the railway…

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Fighting in the Floods

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 25 November 1914 · page 17

The German infantry was obliged to evacuate the trenches north of Dixmuce, owing to severe privations. During their absence, 200 British, with Maxims, crossed the flood on…

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