Flood Position Easier in Queensland. Brisbane
With the cessation of rain in the inland areas the flood position was eased considerably. The Burdekin reached the highest point for a year at Homehill…
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Floods & storms, 1936
201 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 11
Storm Damage Mornington Island 20 Hurt, Church Wrecked Cyclone Off Queensland Brisbane
A tropical cyclone off the coast of Queensland is causing boisterous conditions along and near the coast, south from the tropics. The storm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Triple Disaster in America Floods In East, Duststorms In West Deluge of Mud Rained on Farm Crops Loss of Life May Exceed a Thousand More Than 100 Cities And Innumerable Towns Affected New York
A triple disaster has overwhelmed the United States. Flood waters now cover one-quarter of the entire country, while in the western areas terrific duststorms are denuding the country of the fertile top soil. In other sections combined dust and snowstorms have resulted in a deluge of mud,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Battered Queensland Shipping Cane Crops Flattened Cyclone Off Coast Brisbane
The cyclone centred off the North Coast yesterday and sent small ships scurrying for shelter. Larger vessels caught in the storm hove to in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S. FLOODS 169 Known Dead 221,500 Persons Homeless Waters Commence to Recede New York
In most of the flood-stricken areas of 14 inundated States the waters receded to-day. The known dead totalled 169…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Water Brigade Ready for Floods South Grafton Annual Meeting Bright Prospects for Regatta
Floodboat crews, trained and ready, are available in the eventual a flood at Grafton, and as a result of the activities of the Regatta…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gale in Sydney Air Liners Delayed. Sydney
Striking Sydney last night a gale which reached a velocity of 44 miles an hour was responsible for heavy seas which delayed shipping, chiefly north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →14 Ships Overdue at Brisbane Delayed By Cyclone Damage on Sea Front Brisbane
Up to noon to-day, only one ship had arrived at Brisbane, out of 15 due to reach port to-day. The Merkur, which was hove to for several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OVER 200 Floods' Death Roll 320,000 Destitute Pittsburg Conditions Chaotic New York
Throughout New England and east of the Ohio Valley generally the flood crests washed their way to the sea, and the problem now is one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FREIGHTER Weathered Cyclone Huge Cargo of Timber. Sydney
Carrying 4,000,000 feet of timber, some of which was stacked to a height of 15 feet on the deck, the British freighter, Red Sea, arrived in port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →172 DEAD In American Floods OVER 400,000 Homeless New York
With the exception of the Merrimac and a few rivers in Maine, the flood waters were receding rapidly to-day. with relief agencies redoubling their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Candle in London Floodlights New York Museum Science Centre Opened
The New York Museum of Science and Industry in the Rockefeller Centre was formally opened a few weeks ago by the lighting of a simple…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sharp Thunderstorm
On Saturday afternoon the plateau was visited by a sharp thunderstorm, which came from the south and continued for about quarter of an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fisherman Rescued Capsize In A Gale Swimmer with Lifeline. Melbourne
Crawling along the top of a swaying breakwater in almost total darkness, with heavy seas breaking continuously over him, Alfred Dixon, 20, of Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warned Brisbane of 1893 FLOOD Death Of Mr. H. P. Somerset Once Managed Ramoknie and Gordon Brook
The name of Mr. H. P. Somerset, who died at Caboonbah on Saturday, at the age of 84 years, is perpetuated fittingly in the Somerset Dam, now under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Epic of a Mine Owners Entombed Flood Waters Rising Frantic Fight for Rescue London
A message from Moose River (Nova Scotia) states that Herman Magill, one of three men buried in a fall of earth in a gold mine here, on Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight for Addis Ababa Warriors Defending Pass Mountain Roads Wrecked By Dynamite Abyssinians Feverishly Flooding Enemy's Path Italian Column Routed in the Darkness Empress Makes Impassioned Appeal To World Addis Ababa
The bursting of Italian aerial bombs now merges with the detonations of dynamite, with which the Abyssinians are hurling the road and its abutments in tons of shattered shale down the hillsides of the mountain pass, leading from Shulameda Plain over the Tarmarbur barrier range to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gales Abating Atlantic Freighters Safe. New York
The freighters Ivanhoe and St. Quentin, which yesterday wirelessed distress calls, to-day reported that the gales were abating, and they had no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific Storm Liner Makura Battered Captain's Graphic Story. Sydney
A graphic account of a terrific storm which the liner Makura encountered while en route from New Zealand to Australia, was related by Capt. D…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Talkies "Storm Over the Andes."
Rich in the color and glamour of South America, packed with romance, action and thrills, Universal's "Storm Over the Andes" opens at the Garden…
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