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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
109 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 6
ADESPERATE fight for life was made by the passengers and crew of the new Finnish motor ship Joanna Thordon amid a howling gale and in darkness early today, but it is believed that 32 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOULBURN, Wednesday—Widespread damage was caused here by a [?]rece storm which passed ovm the city last night. Hail the size of golf…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Brish[?] that very fenny coins occurred [?]vas a wide [?] in southern Queensland on Tuesday. A[?] all enter[?] were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOR the second time within 10 days Umberumberka overflowed this afternoon. The reservoir overflowed on Saturday week following the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA. Tuesday.—A terrific thunderstorm broke over Canberra late last night. At the height of the storm the masts of wireless station…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EXTENSIVE washaways on the Adelaide line blocked the progress of last night's Broken Hill bound express, and it is now on its way back to Adelaide carrying most of its complement of 100 passengers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THERE will fae no express for Adelaide to-night. This announcement was made from the Silverton Tramway Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE first of the 180 passengers on the express which left Adelaide for Broken Hill on Monday night are rived in Broken Hill this morning. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TEMPORARY repairs to the damaged railway line between Mannahill and Cockburn have made the track passable, and goods train traffic was are tically back to normal early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHICAGO, January 20.—Continued rain has brought further threats of flooded arcas in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While trying to rescue the crewe of two distressd ships in a raging snowstorm in the Baltic Sea, the German naval…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, January 22.—Because of rough seas following a gale during the night, the homeward-bound P. and O. liner Strathaird from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 22.—Because of rough seas following a gale during the night, the homeward-bound P. and O. liner Strathaird from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SWEEPING down over Norway bitter gales are lashing the North Sea and threatening the crew aboard the Norwegian cargo steamer, Karmp, with destruction. Summoned by a wireless S.O.S. call, which no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SWEEPING down over Norway bitter gales are lashing the North Sea and threatening the crew aboard the Norwegian cargo steamer, Karmp, with destruction. Summoned by a wireless S.O.S. call, which no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Northern Territory, after months of abnormally, dry weather, during which cattle stations have had heavy losses of stock, has experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cincinatti, the second largest city of Ohio, suffered the worst disaster of its history, when gasoline oil floating on flood waters in the industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADDING to the terror, fire and flood spread to-day along the 1800 miles of the [?]ooded regions, in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, where approximately 500,000 people are homeless and marooned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH 150 dead and 550,000 homeless as the result of the flood, the worst is yet to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUTWARD-BOUND for Australia, the liner Strathnaver had the greatest difficulty in unloading freight at Gibraltar because of gales…
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