Under Water Parts of London Menaced by Floods LONDON
The Thames, at the Embankment, overflowed shortly after midnight to-day. Westminster is partly under water, which flowed into the…
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1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 94
A Fierce Gale. Sweeps England. Much Damage Done. London, Jan. 6
Yesterday the country was swept by a gale. At least five people were killed and many injured, and widespread damage was done. The wind swept over Spurn Head…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Terrific Storm. Buildings Destroyed. Cattle Bruised by Hail. Alstonville
A terrille thunderstorm passed over the Alstonville and Rous districts yesterday afternoon, causing heavy damage to property. Marom Creek received the full force of the…
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WHEN the sky became clouded to almost darkness this morning it heralded a terrific storm. For some time before the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fourteen Drowned Hundreds Homeless London's Awful Flood Worst in Seven Centuries London
A REVISED list of the number drowned in London's devastating flood shows a total of fourteen. Hundreds of homeless and scantily-clad people, including many children, crowded into the relief depot at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London Flooded. Thames Overflows. People Drowned in Basements. Four Girls Perish in One Room
In the early hours of Saturday morning the Thames overflowed in consequence of flood water meeting an unusually high tide. London was flooded, and within a few hours a death-roll of 14 was reported. Terror-stricken people were rescued by police from tenements and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pitiful Scenes In London Flood Disaster Havoc on Coast Twelve Rivers Overflow Worst for 700 Years "Daddy, Help Us!" Dying Girls' Vain Cry London, Sunday Night
Twelve rivers overflowed in the English counties of Essex, Kent and Norfolk during the week-end. The terrible havoc wrought in the Thames districts of London, which resulted in 14 deaths and the ejection…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smoked Cigar Then Ran 100 Miles 'Duck Boards and Floods London
A South African, Arthur Newton, aged 45, ran 100 miles from Bath to Hyde Park In 14 hours 22 minutes 10 seconds, beating the record by 21 minutes 10 seconds, beating the record by 21 min.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Most Serious London Floods Within Living Memory Four Sisters Drowned in Their Beds Pitiful Appeals to "Open the Door" -- Fourteen Lives Lost -- Many Gallant Acts Rooms Filled to the Ceilings
The London floods were the most sudden and most serious within living memory. They were caused by an abnormally high tide meeting the flood waters of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone Sweeps Queensland Str. Koopa in Gale Passengers' Terror Sawmill Unroofed Brisbane
A CYCLONIC storm passed over various centres of the State yesterday evening. It was particularly severe in Moreton Bay…
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Further heavy rain is likely on the North Coast, and unsettled weather generally in that area and the central coast and northern tablelands…
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Heavy rain was recorded on the North Const [?]uring the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday. Many centres reported over two inches. The highest registrations were 409 points at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →No Storm Surfers Now Calm "The Sun" Cup
There was a big attendance at the council meeting of the S.L.S.A. last night in anticipation of a disturbance over the events at North Bondi Surf…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →House Lifted Damage in Storm Three Persons Injured Maryborough (Q.)
During a heavy storm at Dagun, three members of a family named Gomersall were Injured when their house was lifted off the stumps and the walls…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Baby Girl Drowned in Flooded Backyard Murwillumbar
PATRICIA Margaret Patrick S. was drowned yesterday in food waters brought down by the recent heavy rains which inundated the backyard of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tidal Bore London's Floods Frost Saved City London
LORD Desborough, chairman of the Thames Conservancy Board, has express the option that the London floods were not due to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Floods Fall Tidal Wave Was Cause Saved by Frost London
The flood which devastated the low lying areas of London, drowning 14 people, was caused by a tidal wave, according to Lord Desborough, president of the Thames Conservancy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Intrepid N.Z. Airmen Hop-off to Make History --See Page 5 Saved by Three Inches of Embankment Second London Flood Just Averted Thousands of People Homeless Night of Dread London
PEOPLE in the low-lying districts of London, especially in Westminster, Charing Cross, Fulham, Vauxhall, Lambeth, and Hammersmith, following the great overflow of the Thames, spent a night of suspense, filled will prayers and hymns…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned in Backyard Baby Girl Victim of Flood Murwillumbah
Patricia Margaret Patrick, 3 was drowned under tragic circumstances to-day. The child lived in the flood area. With the rise in the river as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Londoners Doomed Like Sailors in Submarine Thousands of Homeless and Hungry Flood Victims Early Morning Terror Aggravated by Lighting Failure---Sleepers Called by Police Families Trapped in Basements
"Up, quick; the river is overflowing! The children, the children!" In these words, a terror-stricken London woman, calling to her sleeping husband, typified the horror of thousands of…
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