Severe Gales. Five Yachtsmen Lose Their Lives
Five yachtsmen perished on Saturday afternoon when a [?]-mile an-hour gale suddenly struck the [?] churning the [?] into a foaming [?]…
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Floods & storms, 1932
138 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 7
Collier's 36-Hour Battle with Gale Off Cape Otway Two Days Late at Port Piris Port Pirie
With mountainous seas raking her, from stem to Stern, the engines straining against a bowling storm, and in a mist that blocked vision more than…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collier's 36-Hour Battle with gALE Off Cape Otway Two Days Late at POrT PIRIE Port Pirie
With mountainous seas raking her from stem to stern, the engines straining against a howling storm, and in a mist that blocked vision more than…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms in States in New South Wales People Struck by Lightning Boy Is Killed Sydney,Monday
Violent thunder storms were reported from many centres in New South Wales on Sunday. At Wollongong Arthur Trueman. teller in the Bank of New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms in States Severe Hall Storm in Richmond District Great Damage Done. Sydney
Torrentialirain, 'followed by a severe hail storm fell in the Richmond and Windsor districts, last night, doing great damage.The storm is described…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms in States Lightning Kills Man Was Camped in Tree Gundagai
Lightning caused another death in New South Wales yesterday the victim being John Bloomquist (6O). He was camped- in a hollow tree on the golf…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe Storms Many Areas Flooded in Sydney and Suburbs Sydney
Torrential rain fall in Sydney this morning, accompanied by a severe electrical storm, in a few minute,lowlying areas in many suburbs were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →74 Points of Rain Heavy Thunder- Storm. on Saturday Night Streets Quickly Flooded
Following on threatening weather conditions for several Weeks a severe thunder storm, accompanied by vivid lightning and patchy rain, swept over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys Lost in Scrub During Saturday's Storm
Two boys, Earl Handsaker, son of the stationmaster at Ivanhoe, and Reginald Wells, a friend, were lost in the scrub round Ivanhoe On Suturday night. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale in S.A. Soaking Downpours Benefit. Graziers Adelaide
The week end gale was one of the most remarkable over experienced in South Australia. Though it caused some damage, chiefly in the hills and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale Off S.A. Coast a Ketch "Wrecked Adelaide
In a violent 52 miles an hour gale when waves. 40.feet.high.tossed, ships about like corks the motorship Thermopylae was delayed 14 hours. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storms at Sea Ketch Vivid Is Overdue on Run to Port Lincoln Adelaide,Tuesday
Fears thats may have come to grief in a gale Which lashed the South Australian, coust over the week end have been aroused by the disappearance of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Affairs in Germany Nazi Organisation Is Declared Illegal Storm Troops Disbanded and 230 Barracks Closed
A sensational decree was issued today ordering the dissolution of Hitler's 400,000 storm troops on the ground that they are an illegal organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastures Protection Board Conference at Hillston Postponed for a Week Heavy Rain Te Cause
Due to heavy rains in other parts preventing delegates from arriving in time the Pastures Protection Boards conference which was to open in Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men's L0ng Struggle in Storm-swept Bay Reach the Shore Safely Melbourne
After a five-hour struggle In a rowing boat against a heavy sea In Tort Phillip Bay yesterday Hugh Macleod, of Littlewood-street, Hampton, Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone in New Hebrides Heavy Damage Caused (Special to "The Miller.") Port Vila (New Hebrides). April 27
The steamer Malinoa (900 tons) was driven on a reef at the island of Aboa, lighters were sunk in the harbor, trading cutters driven ashore and houses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.A. Pastoral Districts Have Inch to Inch and a Half Heavy Rain in Far North Adelaide
Steady soaking rain in the north and north-west pastoral area during the past two days has caused jubilation amongst station owners who should now…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trapped by Floods People Praying in Church (Special to "The Miner.") Berlin, May 17
Praying in a church at Gull 23 people were trapped by floods which followed a heavy rain storm. The water was almost up to their necks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →River Alberga in Flood Water Lost in Sand Adelaide
The story of the stream which had not run since 1903 coming down in a wave half a mile wide is told by Detective Sergeant S. Trestrail who has just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in England Telephone Girls' Ordeal Waist Deep in Water (Special to "The Miner.") London, May 24
Because of the floods in the Midlands caused by the heavy week ead downpours, two telephone girls attired in bathing, costumes sat waist deep in…
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