Bankrupt Farmers. Mississippi Flood Victims
Thousands of American farmers in the Mississippi Valley who were flooded out of their lands in July are now bankrupt and half of the area…
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1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 94
Town Flooded Streets Strewn With Furniture
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. -- During the phenomenal rains in Otago, the township of Lawrence suffered severely from a washout, caused by…
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In Cheshire there is a mother who will always remember this as the year of the Great Storm, because the July tempest that broke over most of England nearly swept her…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Unique Photograph of Storm-wracked Schooner
LEAKING BADLY, AND WITH GLOSE-REEFED SAIL, the five-masted American schooner Anne Comyn limped into the Port of Melbourne this week. As she rounded the heads, looking more like a derelict than a trim timber-carrier, she was heeling over dangerously. The vessel, of which this is an exclusive picture to the "Telegraph Pictorial," left Tacoma, Washington, 110 days before, and had been battered by a succession of ocean tempests after passing New Caledonia. The crew toiled manfully at the pumps, which, however, broke down and a large section of the deck cargo had to be jettisoned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The American "Twister" Storm That' Wrecks and Kills
The tornado, or "twister," of the American prairies is the most violent of all storms. Attempts to explain it have been as confused as the wreckage in its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grounded in Gale s.s. Lady Isobel Leaving Newcastle Newcastle
When the Australian Steamship Prop., Ltd., steamer Lady Isobel was leaving Newcastle last night, at 8.45, she grounded on the bar near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Who Will Share Caucus £1000? Storm Brewing Over N.S.W. Labour Party Funds "Defeateds" to Fight for Dividend
[?]WHEN the N.S. Wales Parliamentary Labour Party in 1923 started an insurance fund against defeat at the elections the humourist of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fought Gale
Bert Hisckler, the Australian, who, at the and of a Right of 650 miles, in eight and a half hears, in a baby Action—Cirrus 'plans,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Voyage of Big Storms Caledon's Arrival Collier's Rough Trip
"It was a [?] age of continual storms," was [?] the crew of the Howard Smith [?] Caledon, described their trade from Burntland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Pride of Detroit" Meets Thunderstorm Tokyo
The "Pride of Detroit," in which Brock and Brock are attempting to fly around the world in record time, landed last evening on the Amura flying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Can 'Old Glory's' Crew Survive Atlantic Storms? May Be Adrift in Tiny Boat Wreckage Found by Searching Steamer New York
THE discovery of the wreckage of the "Old Glory," the plane which went astray while attempting to fly from America to England, dissolves almost the last hope of its crew ever being found alive. The only possible way in which they could have survived was by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clouds of Dust Showers to Follow Cyclone's Influence
A DISTURBANCE operating about Bass Strait and our South Coast, caused strong southerly winds to spring up in the city to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Catastrophe. Storms in Japan. Great Loss of Life. TOKIO, Sept, 14
Official reports from various prefectural headquarters throughout the Eastern section of the island of Kyusbyu give particulars of devastation of coastal villages from a typhoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Exodus of Imported Fighters Squires and "Sunny Jim" Going Home "Frisco" McGALE LEAVING
AMERICAN colored boxers, "Frisco" McGale and "Sunny Jim" Williams, leave for America on Thursday next, and Springbox heavyweight Johney Squires…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds Are Drowned in Japanese Floods Tokio
Official reports from various prefectural headquarters throughout the eastern section of the island of Kyushu tell of the devastation of coast villages through a typhoon, tidal waves, and floods, which, while not unparalleled, is nevertheless a catastrophe, involving 600 dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wet Week-end Heavy Coastal Rain Cyclone Operating
DUE is a cyclonic influence, the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, expects [?] rain on the coast and highlands, Sydney on present…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone at Sea Warning to Shipping
Mr. Mares this morning-issued the following warning to shipping: "A very severe cyclone has worked in a south-westerly direction from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Goes Under. Wrecked in Gale
CAPTAIN J. E. MORRIS, Superintendent of Navigation, has received a [?] from Part Kemble stating that the Ketch Clic, Which ran…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Southerly Gale. Rough Seas. Vessels Seek Shelter
A southerly gale swept the New South Wales coast with remarkable suddenness yeserday morning, and caused rough seas Throughout the day the wind maintained gale…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Men in a Boat Struggle Through Gale to Safety
PORT KEMBLA, Thursday.--Three men had a narrow escape from drowning near Perkin's Beach to-day, during the height of the gale…
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