17 Die in Gale Newfoundland Disaster
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Tuesday: Seventeen seamen last night were believed lost at sea in a gale off Newfoundland. They were the crew…
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Floods & storms, 1951
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Floods in Old. Train Passengers Stranded
BRISBANE, Tuesday. Severe floods continue in parts of north and central Queensland. At Longreach in the central west…
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GOSFORD, Tuesday: The main street of Gosford was covered with water tonight as the result of heavy rain falling and flooding the area…
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BRISBANE, This Afternoon. -- Bushfires are raging over thousands of square miles, causing damage to property and stock in the south-west…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: The Norwegian liner, Ozlofjord, 16,844 tons arrived here yesterday after battling the worst storm her master said he…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Queensland is passing through one of its Strangest periods of erratic weather, with record floods in one part…
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BRISBANE, This Aft.--Floods and bushfires are sweeping a great area of Queensland. At Charleville, in the southwest,…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Nine hundred pors[?] have been forced to live in six trains which have been stranded by floods at Mackay, Rockham[?]ton and Hugbeademn. Another 200 persons, who had…
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THOUSANDS of pounds worth of damage was done by the fierce gale which battered Sydney and coastal areas last night and early…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Wet weather, as well as industrial disputes is now seriously affecting the coal output from NSW mines…
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Rescue parties in Switzerland in the Italian Alps and the Australian Alps are making a non-stop search for people buried in the snow following…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The flood position is easing in the Hunter River Valley of central NSW, but passengers, on north bound trains from Sydney…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon. -- A steady fall in the Hunter River during the night ended fears that Maitland would again be…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The Flood Relief Committee of N.S.W. had asked for a Joint Commonwealth State grant of £30,000 for immediate relief…
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Heavy rain contributed to a road accident yesterday afternoon, when a new motor cycle, owned by an S.A.F. apprentice,…
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QUEANBEYAN. Tuesday: A severe hailstorm smashed windows and damaged food and vegetable crops at Queanbeyan today…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. The Acting Prime Minister. Mr. Fadden announced tonight that the Commonwealth Government had decided to…
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MAITLAND, Tuesday: A nine years old girl was [?] in a flooded creek in the Hunter Valley this afternoon…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Nearly four-fifths of Queensland is flooded, and the Weather Bureau says there is worse to come…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--A young girl was drowned when a punt capsized while crossing the flooded Richmond River at Woodburn, near…
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