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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

1,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 59

Storm-battered Cookhouse

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 8

This photograph of the bulkhead of the crew's galley gives an idea of the magnitude of the storm which caused the steamer Gracchus to put into Sydney in distress. Two coolies were at work in the galley when a high sea was shipped. They were washed along the deck and one of them…

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Caught in Cyclone Trawler's Adventure PREMANTLE

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 8

[?] for Auckland for [?] the steam trawler [?] into poor on Saturday night She fell [?] on November [?] and…

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Swept by Seas Gracchus in Gale Two Coolies Injured

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 4

After hours of battling off Gabo Island with mountainous seas which swept over the vessel incessantly, the B.I.S.N. Company's…

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Struck by a Sea Gracchus in a Gale Two Coolies Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 4

Struck by a tremendous sea, whilst battling against a violent south-west gale, the steamer Gracchus had her forward…

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Thunderstorms Local Blows with Hail

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 6

Conditions last night pointed to warm to hot and sultry weather generally with scattered rain and thunderstorms…

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Press Attacked Angry Aldermen a St. Peters Storm

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 5

Recent charges referring to careless administration in the outdoor affairs of St. Peters Council led to the appointment of a…

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Storm Brewing in United States Senate Foreign Policy Rumors

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 5

WASHINGTON, January 22. Feeling in senatorial circles is running be high over the administration of politics that many rumors are in…

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Floods in W.A. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 7

Messages from the North-West report that the Gascoyne River is running a banker. The flood reached Carnarvon on Thursday afternoon, causing a washaway at the town end of…

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Fatal Wire Broken During Gale Boy's Death

The Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1923 · page 8

Should electric wires be passed through the branches of trees? Maurice Riley, aged 7, was electrocuted on January 15, when an electric…

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Wyreema Late Southerly Storms

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 7

Rough seas and squally winds were features of the weather off the South Coast this morning. It was presumed by shipping men…

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Young China. Students, Storm Parliament

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 3

The Peking Parliament has confirmed the change in the Shao-Tsang Cabinet by a vote of 350 to 40. Amid stormy scenes students from the…

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Young Folk. a Storm in a Teacup

Watchman · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 6

We launched the good ship Peanut Hull To-day, on Dish Pan Sea; Our breath behind was the merry wind, And it blew right lustily…

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To-day's Storm More Rain to Come

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 7

In the second cable edition of "The Sun" to-day a prediction by Mr. Mares was published stating that a thunderstorm was likely this afternoon…

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No German "Turns" French Artists Storm Stage LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 1

Hundreds of out-of-work artists in Paris stormed the stage at Olympia to protest against a German "turn" on the boards. They harangued the…

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After the Flood Lithgow

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1923 · page 2

At the last meeting of the council those residents of Main-street West whose houses and yards were flooded during the heavy storm a week ago,…

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Heavy Rain Mainly in Coastal Area Cool Temperatures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1923 · page 9

Light to heavy rain was yesterday recorded almost generally over the eastern half, and was accompanied by thunderstorms. The heaviest falls…

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In Flood

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 January 1923 · page 7

Amber says: "Just about the end of September, on the beginning of October last the residents of Hay and the Riverina districts were expecting the…

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Night of Horror Three Men in a Launch Desperate Plight in a Gale Distress Signals Not Sighted

Evening News · Monday 29 January 1923 · page 6

For 19 hours in a trail 26ft motor launch, tossed and battered by furious cess, the waves leaping mountains high, the engine stopped, their lives dependent on a thin rops line. Such were the thrilling features of an adventure in which three…

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Fatalities Through Flood. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1923 · page 10

On Banks Peninsula a party of grass-seeders was caused in a big landslide, caused by rain, two men being killed. Three men were washed into a creek in the Cant[?]bury district, two…

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Shipping Warned Tropical Cyclone

Evening News · Tuesday 30 January 1923 · page 8

A tropical cyclone, when yesterday was over New Calodonia, has moved in a south-westerly direction…

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