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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 47

Big Cyclone Broken Hill Suffers Heavy Damage Done Salvationists' Escape Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 7

About 11.15 this morning a violent storm passed oyer the city, and did great damage. The storm broke with dust so thick as to darken the air, and inside…

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Sunday's Storm Broken Hill Battered Damage Runs to Thousands Broken Hill

The Sun · Tuesday 12 December 1922 · page 9

Further details of the wreckage caused by Sunday's storm show that not a single portion of the city escaped. Hundreds of residences wore…

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Violent Storms. Damage at Broken Hill. Countryside Deluged. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 December 1922 · page 14

Further details of the damage caused by Sunday's storm indicate that it was the greatest calamity that ever has befallen the city. At the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's…

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Barrier Storm Further Details of Damage Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 December 1922 · page 11

Further details of the damage caused by Sunday's storm indicate that it was the greatest calamity that ever occurred in the city…

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Record Rain Floods in the Far West Great Expanse of Water Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 December 1922 · page 5

Mr. S. Barraclough, driver of the mail coach between Broken Hill and Mllparinka, left Broken Hill on Tuesday last for Mllparinka, and should have returned…

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Nymagee Church Destroyed. The Word of a Cyclone

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 December 1922 · page 26

His Lordship Dr. Hayden, Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes, writes that the Nymagee church, only opened on November 15, was destroyed by a cyclone on…

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Barrier Storm the Silver City's Plight The Relief Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 December 1922 · page 6

Universal sympathy is expressed for the people of Broken Hill, hundreds of whom are homeless as a result of the destruction by…

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Rain in North Thunderstorms Expected

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 December 1922 · page 8

Further rain has been recorded in north-eastern parts of New South Wales, more particularly on the north coast and northern tablelands, where some…

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Cyclonic Storm Damage at Broken Hill Torrential Rain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 December 1922 · page 2

A very violent storm swept over the Broken Hill (N.S.W.) district on Sunday morning last, and severe damage was done, scarcely a building escaping…

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Victims of the Storm Barrier Distress Help for Homeless Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 December 1922 · page 6

Further reports are coming to hand dally of wrecked homes as a result of Sunday's storm. The suburbs and the outskirts of the…

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Sunday's Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 11

A terrific wind and rain storm, fortunately of comparatively short duration, broke over the Maryong portion of Blacktown district on Sunday night last. While…

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Country News Cyclonic Storm Warren

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 12

Particulars are to hand of an exceptionally violent storm, which passed over portions of the country between the Macquarie and the Bogan…

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Storm Centre North Sydney Agog Elaborate Organisation

Evening News · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 6

To-day the attention of the whole of Australia is centred on the North Sydney electorate. To-day the electors of this area are…

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Heat and Thunderstorms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 8

From the standpoint of weather, Sunday last was the most enervating day experienced in Eastwood this summer. The atmosphere was humid and muggy, and…

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Hughes's Electorate Lull After Storm

The Sun · Sunday 17 December 1922 · page 2

From the early opening of the booths to their closing a steady stream of electors of North Sydney recorded their votes and decided the…

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Treasures Op Tomb If a Storm Should Come Damage Feared London, December 15

The Sun · Sunday 17 December 1922 · page 3

Owing to the threat of rain aud the fear that the consequent floods may destroy the recently-discovered antiquities in the tomb of King…

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Severe Hail Storm West Maitland

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 December 1922 · page 9

A heavy hailstorm was experienced on Saturday afternoon. The disturbance worked tip from the west, and was marked by a constant roll of thunder for…

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Storm in Brisbane. Man Killed by Lightning. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 December 1922 · page 8

A terrific thunderstorm accompanied by high wind and vivid lightning occurred in Brisbane late yesterday. Two brothers named Gnezaloff, who were doing fencing work at…

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Broken Hill Sufferers by the Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 December 1922 · page 8

Over thirty applications have been received by Mr. Townsend, Mayor of Broken Hill, for help in rebuilding homes damaged by the recent storm…

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Severe Storm. Houses Damaged Cootamundra, Teusday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1922 · page 11

A windstorm, lasting only a few seconds, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, lifted the whole roof and balcony on the Parker-street side of the Globe Hotel, and scattered it over…

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