Gales and Heavy Seas Batter the Coast SYDNEY
Strong gales and high seas are battering the eastern and southern coasts of Australia. Many ships have run for shelter…
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Floods & storms, 1948
292 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 15
Rough Seas on Coast Storm Warnings Issued
MELBOURNE, Sunday: Rough seas off the coast of south-eastern Australia are buffeting shipping. Winds are reaching gale force and the Melbourne…
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HOBART, Sunday: The flood danger in Tasmania is still serious. Although rain today was not heavy and most of the floodwaters have receded,…
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VANCOUVER, Sunday: The floods on the Pacific coast of Canada became worse today. Water has now cut the last railway link between the…
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PORTLAND (Oregon) The disaster in the vanport housing centre where an unknown number of people were drowned when…
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NEW YORK, Monday.—Floods, devastating vast sections of the north-west Pacific areas of the United States and British Colombia, have surrounded the low-lying area of Vanport, in Oregon, drowning an unknown number of…
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PORTLAND (Oregan), Tuesday:—The most destructive flood in the history of the north-western State of washington, Oregan and Idaho, is…
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Floodwaters are rapidly rising in the East Gippsland district of Glengarry, where the Latrobe River broke its banks yesterday…
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PORTLAND (Oregon), Tuesday.— Unofficial estimates of the death-roll at Vanport City which was wiped out on Sunday by floodwaters of the Columbia River, are as…
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The floods in Or[?] and British Columbia arc unabated. To date at least 500 [?] ople have been drowned and dan[?]ge is…
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PORTLAND. (Oregon), Wednesday: Fears that huge petrol tanks [?] burst at any minuet have added to the perils of rescue workers in the…
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PORTLAND, Oregon, Wednesday.— Semi-officials estimated of the flood damage in Oregan, Washington,…
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PORTLAND, (Oregon), Thursday: The floods which have brought devastation to four States in the northwest of the U.S. and British…
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The death roll in the big American floods in Oregon is now fixed at 115. Further heavy rain has fallen…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday: The flood dangers in the US are still causing anxiety in Oregon. The Columbia River is still well above its normal…
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Fifty-two persons, 45 of whom are children, are still missing in the town of Vanport, which was destroyed and submerged when flood…
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MONTREAL, Thursday: High Tides from the Pacific Ocean, and the mounting waters of the Fraser River swollen by streams into which…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Less than 60 miles from Sydney, sad at low altitude, the Pan-American Clipper this after…
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Widespread floodings, and traffic disruptions, were reported by Western towns yesterday as a result of recent heavy rains. Hundreds of miles of roads are impassable, and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Widespread floodings and traffic disruption was reported by inland towns today as a result of recent heavy rain. In addition, cyclonic rains…
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