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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

1,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 59

Australian's Story Wall of Water That Swept Houses Away Toppling Cliffs Ground That Shook Like Ship in Storm OSAKA, September 11

The Sun · Thursday 13 September 1923 · page 1

Mrs. Hawkes, mother of Mr. J. B. Hawkes, the tennis player, is the hands of friends at Kobe, being carefully nursed. Her nerves are broken,…

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Japanese Earthquake Horrors Thrilling Stories of Escapes From Burning Buildings and Flooded Towns Appalling Scenes at Tokio, Yokohama and Hakone

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 2

The horrors of the appalling disaster in Japan a fortnight ago were intensified last Friday and again on Sunday by the occurrence of several other…

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(Published by Arrangement.). Deluge of Liquor. Systematising New York Trade

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 September 1923 · page 8

About the only difference in the flooding of New York State with liquor before and after the repeal of the Enforcement Act by the State of the…

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Cycling Clark Wins Goulburn-sydney Flood and Burness Dead-heat for Fastest Time

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 September 1923 · page 7

The long awaited Goulburn-Sydney amateur road race was decided yesterday afternoon. The course was from Goulburn to the Dog Trap-road, between Granville and Merrvlands, a…

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GALES Damage in Perth PERTH

The Sun · Wednesday 19 September 1923 · page 7

Equinoctial gales are raging with usual severity, and for two days the overland, telegraph service has been working about a day behind schedule…

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Foundered? Baron Blantyre Struck Cyclone What Sailors Think

Evening News · Wednesday 19 September 1923 · page 1

IT has been learned in Sydney that certain vessels between Fremantle and South Africa on August 15 were in…

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Victorian Footballers L. Gale's Suspension : Should Appeal to Independent Investigation Tribunal

Referee · Wednesday 19 September 1923 · page 13

Fitzrey will be without their enzrgetic rover, L. Gale, who has been suspended for six weeks for striking at a player. He wrote to the V.F.L. on…

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Gales Raging Telegraph Wires Down

Evening News · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 7

Westerly gales are raging a the west to-day, and so terrine is the wind that telegraphic communication with many inland towns has been out off…

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Cyclone. Hits Rockdale Roof Blown Off

Evening News · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 7

The weather changed with a whirr, and a crash, at Rockdale. this afternoon. Just when residents were…

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Hot Again 90deg. Common Dust Storms in West

Evening News · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 9

Old Sol was again in charge of affairs yesterday, and he had a royal time, sending the mercury soaring to the nineties in the west, and to…

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Dust Epic Search for Scoringe Calm Before Storm

The Sun · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 10

An oppressive silence brooded over the surroundings at Ascot yesterday afternoon--the sort of hushed expectancy that usually precedes an eclipse…

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Wires Down No Communication With Melbourne Gales Cause Damage Country Business Seriously Affected

The Sun · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 9

The gales sweeping across Australia from the west caused considerable interruption this afternoon to interstate telephone and telegraphic communication. After working for an hour and a half the men trying to locate…

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Floods at Forbes. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 10

After the devastating floods of the past couple of weeks. Forbes people became very anxious when the river again rose to 30ft yesterday morning, as a result of the rains…

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Road Champion H. C. Flood's Great Record

The Sun · Thursday 20 September 1923 · page 5

H. C. Flood, who tied for fastest time in the Goulbourn-Sydney road race last Saturday, commenced racing with the Enfield-Burewood Juniors in 1917, and was drafted…

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Gale in Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 7

A telegram from Melbourne, delayed by the interruptions to the lines, states that a terrific dust, storm raged there yesterday. Horses at the…

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Violent Wind Storm Gale's Devastating Fury State-wide Damage Man Killed at Katoomba

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 7

Practically the whole State was swept yesterday afternoon by one of the most violent cyclonic storms for years. At least one life has been lost--a man was killed at Katoomba when a chimney crashed through a roof--and many…

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The Suburbs. Enfield Storm-water Channel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 14

A deputation from the Enfield Council, introduced by Sir Thomas Henley and Messrs. D. Anderson and E. J. Loxton, Ms.L.A., asked the Minister for Works on Wednesday that the…

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First Car At Wiseman's Ferry Arrives in Storm

Evening News · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 7

From Our Special Reporter on Mr. Boyd Edkins' car. WISEMAN"S FERRY, Friday. In the teeth of a fierce wind,…

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