Heavy Loss of Sheep Caught in Storm on Railway ADELONG
Of a large number of sheep trucked from Narrandera to Tumut, 1400 died in the trucks, and 500 died after untrucking. The sheep were caught in…
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Flight of Death Seven Killed in Air Race Speeding in Snow Storm
NEW YORK, Thursday Evening. Further reports are to hand of the San Francisco-New York air race. So far, there have been seven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Training in a Gale Work at Randwick Impediment's Mile
Following were the fastest times recorded at Randwick this morning:— New Guinea, [?] fur is [?] Devolution, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Weather Gale and Dust Hot Winds in the City
Suburban residents experienced an uncomfortable time going to the city this morning. The Clammy best borne by the wind of 40-mile gusts, combined…
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The wind blew with hurricane force on Monday night and Tuesday, and growers from the Hills state that a good deal of damage would result, to say nothing of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Swept. City Enveloped in Dust
Violent dust storms swept over the city and suburbs yesterday, accompanied during the early part of the day by hot and sultry conditions, and later by a cool southerly change…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Biggest Hail Storm
The most violent hailstorm known in Sydney was in March, 1881, Mr. Mares stated to-day, when hall 2½ inches in diameter fell. In December,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm at Midnight
At midnight the dense thunder clouds that had settled over the city burst with a violent fall of hall, followed by heavy rain In several parts of the city the gutters were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Streets Flooded. Storm in City. Remarkable Fall of Hail
The heat of the latter part of yesterday culminated in a very heavy hall and rain storm shortly after midnight. For half an hour or so brilliant flashes of lightning,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"An Unusual Storm" Mr. Mares Explains
The storm caused the gauge at the Weather Bureau to overflow. Mr. Mares said this morning that during the past few days the various…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cause of the Storm Explained by Mr. Mares
[?] past few days," said Mr. Mar[?] Divisional Officer, Sydney W[?] this morning, "the various pressure systems over Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Furious Hail Storm Sydney Bombarded Last Night's Outburst Business Places Flooded Blocks of Ice in City Streets
The elements raged in all their fury over Sydney last night. With the setting of the sun dark masses of cloud stole up over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extraordinary Storm City Deluged at Midnight Many Business Premises Flooded Remarkable Fall of Hail Boys Battle with "Snowballs"
A torrential rain and hall storm swept down on portions of the City at 12.30 this morning to the accompaniment of vivid lightning and sharp claps of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hoses Turned on To Clear Away Flood
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Midnight Storm City Suffers Severely—Visitation of Hail
It is rarely that weather teats the instruments of the Meteorological Bureau, but the combination of hail and rain in Friday night's storm found the Bureau…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Under Icy Shrapnel Freak Hail Batters City Shops Flooded and Harbor Lights Dimmed Streets Recall Arctic as Day Dawns
In the earliest hour of yesterday morning, when thousands of city dwellers had reached home from the theatres a great shaft of light burst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Leak and a Gale. Steamer's Close Call
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.--The secretary of the Post Office Department received a wireless from Chathams stating that the steamer Kahu (185 tons) sprang a leak at 2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tangled Telephone. the Storm and the Wires
A perfectly harmless individual used his telephone on Saturday. He wanted to communicate with a harmless friend. So he removed the telephone receiver…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Storm. Extensive Damage Great Masses of Ice
As announced in our later editions on Saturday, a storm of exceptional violence deluged the city shortly after 12.30 o'clock that morning, and thousands of tons of hall descended…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial Storm. Breaks in Dominion. Oversea Coal Not Handled. Wharf Work Stopped. Wellington (N.z.)
The long-gathering industrial storm appears to have broken at last, though a possibility still exists that a settlement may be reached peacefully…
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