Severe Storm Damage at Ballina. Lismore
Accompanied by wind of hurricane force, a storm which passed over the eastern portion of Ballina last night caused hundreds of pounds damage in…
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Floods & storms, 1936
201 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 11
Crop Losses Storm in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)
The damage by the storm to the Canterbury wheat crop is estimated at half a million pounds. It is also thought that a third of the…
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After experiencing very sultry weather conditions yesterday, in which the mercury rose to 91 degrees, Grafton received a sharp storm accompanied by…
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Reports received to-day indicate that heavy rain fell during the weekend over almost the whole of the northern half of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian Students Attempt to Storm British Embassy. London
The "News-Chronicle's" Rome correspondent states that during the celebrations of the Abyssinian "rout," several hundred students attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marooned by Rain Train Passengers And Workmen Floods in Central Australia. Melbourne
Already marooned for several days at Finke River Crossing, Central Australia, following heavy rains, which caused the river to flood, 16 train…
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The casualty list of British ships lost last year contains the names of the Mohawk, sunk in collision, The liner Vardulia, foundered, and the Clan…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman's Ordeal Carried On Stretcher Through Flood Leg Fractured in Fall. Lismore
Mrs. A. w. Ross, who lives on a range, of hills between Tuntable and Terania Creek, about 18 miles from Lismore, went through a terrible ordeal when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain N. Queensland Line Flooded. Brisbane
Heavy rains in the north again made it necessary for the mail trains on the Brisbane-Townsville line to make use of the long detour via Longreach and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Qsland Rains Heavy Falls In West Rivers in Flood 50 Inches at Townsville. Brisbane
A wide area of the far west and the north-west has received further beneficial rain during the past 24 hours. Many rivers and creeks are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Drowned Floods In Queensland Far North Isolated. Brisbane
A drowning fatality is reported at Charleville, the victim being Leslie Milford, who has been missing from Tenham Station for two days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods on South Coast Up To Eight Inches All Traffic Disorganised Sydney
Extensive damage to crops and property was caused by a cloudburst on the South Coast, late last night. In some centres, between midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SUBSIDING South Coast Floods Motorists on Move Again. Sydney
Although flood waters generally are subsiding on the South Coast the main South Coast highway is impassable at Brogo, where a temporary bridge has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Q'sland Floods Railways Under Water Normanton Flooded. Brisbane
Owing to floods communication has been severed in districts west of Barcaldine and north of Home Hill. Passengers bound for the north, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Food Shortage Bridges Covered Floods In Queensland Vast Areas Isolated Brisbane
Flood conditions still prevail In parts of the interior. Blackall, in the central west, had six inches in five days. The Barcoo River has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trapped 1200Ft. Down Mine Party At Boulder Water Floods Tunnel Perth
While Ian Marshall (26), single, was showing a party of friends over the Iron Duke mine at Boulder last night the bulkhead holding back the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Drowned in U.S.A. FLOODS Thousands Leave Homes Johnstown's Plight New York
Sudden floods, following heavy downpours, swept across sections of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia to-day, causing thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Waters Receding Conditions in Queensland. Brisbane
Rains have now ceased in most of the inland parts, and with the exception of one or two centres the flood waters are receding rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Phenomenal Storm
The storm that visited the Plateau on Saturday, February 15th, was particularly severe at Fernbrook and old residents declare that for a short…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thousands Homeless in U.S.A. Disastrous Floods More Than 50 Deaths Reported Thawing of Winter Snow Spreads Devastation Along Rivers Damage Runs Into Millions New York
The most devastating floods for years, as a result of the thawing of vast snow accumulations during the hardest winter in the century, poured down through the Eastern United States to-day, and caused widespread death and property destruction…
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