Storm in Adelaide Crash of a Brick Wall on to Four Motor Cars Adelaide
A terrifie north wind whipped Adelaide to-day, and there were many swirling clouds of dust. When a 20ft. brick wall at a car park in…
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Floods & storms, 1931
268 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 10 of 14
Floods in China Deaths 1000 a Day in the Hankow Area Fear That Starving Troops May Pillage Hankow Shanghai. August 23
The City of Hankow, 600 miles inland from Shanghai, which is threatened with destruction by the floods in the Yanglse-Kiang, is faced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray Crisis at Wall and Pompoota. Adelaide
A crisis has been reached at Wall and Pompoota liats, near Murray Bridge, wh[?]e the flood waters are like a sinister tidal wave ready to burst over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in China Death Roll Increased by a Severe Storm Crowded Buildings Collapse Shanghai, August 25
A severe storm believed to be the forerunner of an advancing typhoon is raging in the flooded Hankow district, increasing deaths and devastations by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swan Reach Business Places Reported Flooded To-day Adelaide
Twenty farmers had to vacate their residences at Swan Reach where many business places in the main street are flooded. All business is being done on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray To-day Is Critical Period for Many Settlements Adelaide
With the River Murray flood watars nearly at their peak, to-day is the most critical day for the dairying settlements which have not yet already been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wind Storm in Adelaide
THE STRONG WIND PLAYED HAVOC IN MANY DIRECTIONS IN ADELAIDE ON TUESDAY.—The picture on the left shows men holding the window of Wheeler's store, North-terrace, which was literally shaking in the wind. Centre: "What a day!" says Miss Adelaide. Right: Ropes were used to tie the corner stay holding the plateglass windows of Metters Limited to a pillar inside the showroom. A garage hand had a miraculous escape from death when this wall (main picture) at the parking station of W A Roberts, Hindley-street, Adelaide, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flooded Murray Settlers Are Fighting a Losing Battle Adelaide
The settlers are waging a losing battle with the flood waters. The River Glen settlement was able to survive till ll o'clock last night when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Typhoons in Japan Early Storms Severe (Special to "The Miner.") Kobe, August 27
The typhoon season has begun early, and the storms are severe. The Korean Government announced that 40 persons are dead and 770 fishermen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Late Cable News. General Items. Floods and Famine in China
Shanghai, Thursday—A severe storm believed to be the [?] of an advancing typhoon is raging in the flooded Honkong districts, increasing the deaths…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flooded Murray Position Is Critical at Several Settlements Adelaide
Although the weather was calm last night and this morning grave trouble still threatens many of the remaining settlements along the River Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray Position Is Critical at Several Settlements Adelaide
Although the weather was calm last night and this morning grave trouble still threatens many of the remaining settlements along the River Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scenes of the Murray Floods in South Australia
SPECIAL PICTURES OF THE SWOLLEN WATERS OF THE RIVER MURRAY.—The main picture was taken a little upstream from Mannum and shows how the banks have been broken on both sides of the main stream, the normal course of which is marked by the rows of trees. Inset is a view of an isolated homestead facing the stream between Wall and P ompoota. Only the banks built up rou nd it are keeping the flood waters back…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in China 200,000 Chinese Drowned 75,000 Arb Homeless Shanghai, August 30
More than 200,000 Chinese were drowned in North Kiangsu when the Grand Canal bauks burst above Shaopo, inundating hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray Murray Bridge and Mannum Were Crowded by Visitors Adelaide, Munday
It is estimated that 50,000 people saw the [?]ooded River Murray at Murray Bridge and at Mannum during the week end. Since early on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray Settlements in Danger During a Gale Yesterday Adelaide
Developing into a gale at 5 p.m. yesterday, the wind which had blown all day suddenly put the River Munay settlements in acute danger again. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms in Tasmania Woman Electrocuted Burnie
One life was lost as a result of severe gales which swept Tasmania last night and to-day, and minor damage was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →O'malley Wood As President Should Inspire Confidence Mr. Gale's Statement Sydney
Mr. W. M Gale, president of the Government Savings Bank Depositors' Association, said to-day that a meeting of the committee of the association has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in China 300,000 Lives Were Lost When Dikes Collapsed Shanghai, August 31
The latest offical reports from Nanking estimate the total loss of life along the Grand Canal at 300,000 as a result of the collapse of the dikes in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Murray an Ominous Rise Reported at Mannum Adelaide
Although towns. upstream roport that the River Murray is falling, and that the danger of floods is passed, an ominous rise in the level at Mannum is…
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