Dutch Flood Crisis
AMSTERDAM, Sunday: Holland is in a major flood crisis, with mountainous seas raging along the coast, cracking the dykes protecting the…
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Floods & storms, 1953
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Storm Damage in Melbourne Trams Derailed
MELBOURNE, Monday: A violent thunderstorm which swept across Melbourne early this afternoon dislocated essential services, washed out…
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LONDON, Monday: Dawn in England today has brought a scene of great devastation. Hundrews of square miles of water…
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LONDON, Tuesday. -- The storm lashed North Sea, reclaiming for its own land captured by man over centuries, had by 10 p.m. G.M.T. last night killed nearly 1,000 people in tidal floods…
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LONDON, Monday.—The floods in England today have brought a stream of unparalleled devastation. Hundreds of square miles of flood water cover the country side…
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Loose galvanised iron sheets, torn from the roof of the Bathurst Masonic Hall at the height of the freak rain and windstorm yesterday, sheared through an iron and timber fence 60 yards away…
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LONDON. Tuesday: The storm lashed North Sea, reclaiming for its own, land captured by man over centuries had,, by 10 o'clock…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--Apart from some areas of Lincolnshire, floodwaters now are subsiding slowly in Britain, but the total of deaths caused by the North Sea's vast inroads in Britain,…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The storm-lashed North Sea, reclaiming for its own land captured by man over centuries, had, by 10 p.m. G.M.T. last night, killed nearly 1,000 people in tidal floods over the lowlands of Britain, Holland and Belgium over the weekend…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday: Gale-force winds blew small craft ashore on the South Australian coast today and hundreds of other little boats are…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- Fresh flooding in Belgium, the threatened collapse of Holland's remaining sea defences and a 60 m.p.h. gale along sections of the British coast last night posed a grim threat of new havoc in Europe's disastrous floods…
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OBERON, This Afternoon.--Rain marred the first day of the Oberon. A.H. and P. Association Show held today. It…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday: Big areas of the far north of South Australia and across the Northern Territory border have had extremely heavy…
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LONDON, Friday.--Even before the floods, which have just ravaged Europe's Low Countries, have completely subsided, snowstorms and blizzards, now are sweeping across many parts of the…
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Steady rain fell in Bathurst yesterday and temperatures were mild. Rain up to 9 a.m. yesterday totalled 26 points with an additional 40, points to…
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LONDON, Friday: The first signs of relief from further flood devastation appeared in both Britain and Holland this morning. Neither…
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FAENZA, Friday.— The sun is to blame for North , west Europe’s disastrous floods according to Italian…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: The townspeople of Cloncurry spent tonight without a water supply of electricity. Flood waters poured into the power…
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THE HAGUE, Sunday: Dutch people throughout the world observed today (Sunday) as a day of morning for victims of the…
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DARWIN, Sunday: The railway line from Adelaide to Alice Springs is now cut by floods both north and south of Oodnadatta…
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