Six Die in Storm
LONDON, Monday: Six people were killed when winds reaching 100 miles an hour in several parts of Britain caused havoc and floods yesterday…
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Floods & storms, 1952
390 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 20
Passengers Jumped As Storm Smashes Ship
LONDON, Wednesday.—Five women and a boy were among 10 passengers who had to jump overboard from the storm-smashed American freighter, Flying Enterprise—into the worst Atlantic sea for half a…
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AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Nearly 100 lives were lost on an island in the New Hebrides when a hurricane swept the area on Christmas Day…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Five women and a boy were among 10 passengers who had to jump overboard from the storm-smashed American freighter…
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Heavy rain, driven before gale force winds with gusts sometimes approaching 50 m.p.h. lashed Lithgow early…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Trans Tasman yachts have been battling through gales in the Hobart Auckland race…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Violent gales battered the central N.S.W. coast during the night, damaging homes, roofs and sinking, moored launches. At Matchin, near Gosford, when the storm brought down…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Latest reports from the ketch Kurrewa III, mother ship in the Trans-Tasman yacht race tonight that the three leading craft…
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Following the weekend storm a noticeable fresh in the Macquarie River was reported yesterday morning…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Violent storms which swept down to the coast from the central west of NSW early this afternoon left a trail of damage in…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Communications are being restored in the New Hebrides after the disastrous hurricane Christmas Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Struck Molong: Homes and Hospital Hit (From Our Staff Reporters)
A cyclone which hit part of Molong with terrific force yesterday afternoon left a trail of damage in which: Part of the roof of the Molong District…
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On Monday a cyclone at Molong smashed the roof of the hospital, wrecked several homes, uprooted tall gum…
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A fierce storm of gale force struck Spring Flat and Burrundulla, on Monday afternoon…
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LONDON, Wednesday: After being hove to several hours to ride out an Atlantic storm 27 miles south of the Scifly Isles, the British tug Turmoil,…
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LONDON, Thursday: Late reports tonight [?] that the American freighter Flying Enterprise was being tossed about by Soft swells…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manildra Magazine Manildra Missed Gale Which Hit Molong; 80 Points of Rain Recorded
Manildra escaped the full force of a gale which struck Molong on Monday, but heavy rain fell in various…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: Flood warnings have been issued by the Queensland Weather Bureau and there have been reports of steady rain News of…
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SEATTLE, Monday.—An Arctic born storm in the North Pacific yesterday temporarily halted the search for the missing American freighter Pennsylvania, and her crew of 46. A Coastguard spokesman said…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Effects of two cyclones now operating over northern Australia, are being felt in the Guinea waters…
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