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Floods & storms, 1924

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Gales Coming Special Forecast

The Sun · Tuesday 14 October 1924 · page 9

The following special-forecast is being broadcasted by the Weather Bureau this afternoon:--"Very disturbed conditions over all…

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Swept From Trees 100 Priests Drowned Tragedy of Floods Calcutta, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 14 October 1924 · page 1

The most remarkable of the many stories regarding the grave floods which have devastated large tracts of southern and northern India during…

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Rough Off Coast Gales and High Seas

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 October 1924 · page 3

Meteorological conditions south of the continent have become very disturbed, according to reports at the Weather Bureau yesterday…

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Swept by Gale. Southern States Suffer. Trunk Lines Down. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 October 1924 · page 9

While the telegraphic and telephone lines throughout Victoria suffored from the fierce gusts experienced in the early hours of yesterday morning, South Australia fared worse…

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Gale on Lake Boaters' Peril Four Girls and Man NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Thursday 16 October 1924 · page 10

A MAN and four girls in a rowing best were caught in a gale on Lake Ma[?] yesterday, and after a two-hours' fight against…

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Cyclone Havoc In South Australia Many Homeless Narrow Escapes From Death Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 October 1924 · page 1

Considerable damage was done by a cyclone at Barmera, on the River Murray, last night, between 6 and 7 o'clock…

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"As Night As Day" Lighting Flashes at Sea Pacifique in Storm

The Sun · Thursday 16 October 1924 · page 10

The full force of yesterday's storm was met about 8 p.m. by the French steamer Pacifique, when the vessel was about 40 miles from Sydney on…

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89.6 DEGREES Yesterday's Heat Thunderstorm and Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 October 1924 · page 3

Yesterday was the hottest day experienced in Sydney so far this season. At the Weather Bureau the…

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Events of the Day Riots and Floods Disasters in India Great Loss of Life

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 October 1924 · page 4

Throughout Northern india riots between Hindus and Mohammedans baby been causing grave anxiety to the authorities. The tension between the two…

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The Floods in Southern India

The World's News · Saturday 18 October 1924 · page 10

The rainfall in Madras this year has beaten all previous records, and vast areas under cultivation hace been laid waste. Our first picture shows flood waters rushing along the main street of Bhavani, Coimbatore, on the banks of the river of the same name, a tributary of the Cauvery. Several bridges were washed away, including the…

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Famous Australian Floods

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 October 1924 · page 20

A FEW weeks ago the whole of the flat land between Albury (N.S.W.) and Wodonga (Vic.) was under water and some of the low-level…

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MAROONED Delhi Flood Horrors Ladies' Awful Experience CALCUTTA, October 18

The Sun · Monday 20 October 1924 · page 1

That they had no comb or soap is the only complaint of two European ladies, who had a brain-torturing experience in the floods in the Delhi…

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General Rain Thunderstorms Likely Squally Southerly Change

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 October 1924 · page 3

Conditions last night pointed to general rain and thunder, with some good falls over New South Wales, within the next 48 hours…

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Last Night's Gale Casino Ashore Tug Sent to Rescue Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 9

Advices slate that the steamer Casino, hound from Melbourne to Port J Fairy, met with a mishap off Cape Pratton, last night. No particulars…

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Casino Ashore Caught in Gale Tug to the Rescue Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 1

The [?] Casino, of 425 tons, trading between Melbourne and Portland, went aground at midnight close to the shore at Cape…

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British Election Partisans Keeping Up High Pressure Deluge of Speeches at Week-end London, October 20

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 7

There is no abatement in the intensity of the British election campaign. In every portion of the country candidates and other partisans have been deluging the constituents with speeches. Even the traditional regard…

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Flood Protection. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 10

The Parliamentary representatives for Byro[?] have received a letter from the Under-Secretary for Public Works replying to representations made by them on behalf of the Lismore…

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Rough Trip Manuka in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 October 1924 · page 3

For three days on the run from Auckland the Union Company's steamer Manuka was battling against a south-west sale. The storm was…

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Shipping Warned Cyclonic Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 October 1924 · page 1

Shipping was warned by wireless yesterday of the existence of a cyclonic disturbance centred about Bass…

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Bowling Their Heads to the Gale

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 22 October 1924 · page 30

Part of a remarkable and picturesque cabbage-palm clump at Albion Park, in the South Coast district of New South Wales…

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