Gales and Floods Damage U.S. 18 Persons Dead San Francisco, Feb. 14
CALIFORNIA has entered on its 20th consecutive day of rain, blizzards, and gales, which have resulted…
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Floods & storms, 1938
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Plane Delayed by Severe Storms
Severe storms which were experienced between Melbourne, and Mildura, and then a heavy dust storm which was encountered about 100…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Great Sacrifice Gave Warning Of Floods Auckland (N.z.), Feb. 21
WHEN the camp flooding tragedy occurred at Wairoa on Saturday Tom Tracey exhibited wonderful heroism…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in South Australia Resource Shown by Woman 400 Men Idle At Iron Knob ADELAIDE
HELD up by floods Mrs. S. J. C. Birdseye, who conducts a weekly road service between Adelaide and Port Lincoln, showed courage and resource early to-day. Clad in bathers she waded through the swiftly running Myall…
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THIS FLOOD PICTURE was taken at thc washaway on the East-West line, 26 miles west of Port Augusta. Earth had been scoured out from beneath the track, leaving the lines and sleepers suspended. The damage could not be repaired in time to let the express through, so a relief train was sent from Port Pirie. Passengers an: mails were taken across the washaway to this train on a trolly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm in Tasmania
HOBART, Friday. — A particularly heavy storm has caused considerable damage in the northern parts of the State. Low lying country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Californian Disaster Death Roll of 50 From Floods £20 Million Damage (Special to "The Miner") Los Angeles, March 3
THE Californian flood, the worst for 50 years, and one of the State's biggest disasters, began to subside late to-day. Already there is a death roll of at least 50, and damage may now approach £20,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Death Roll Totals 175 California Is Isolated (Special to "The Miner.") Los Angeles, March 4
FURTHER reports reveal that at least 175 people are dead or missing in the flood disaster. About 30,000 square miles in…
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PICTURES OF THE DAMAGE AT LAMBINA STATION after the disastrous Central Australian floods last month. Top—The ruins of the once neat homestead. The gum tree shown is the one in which four men, a woman, and two young children stayed fol15½ hours with menacing floodwaters swirling round them. Centre—The new Lambina…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Jagged pieces of ice measuring from 2in. to 2½in. in diameter fell over Redcliffe Peninsula for an hour. The fall was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood And Famine Faces China SHANGHAI, March 18
FOLLOWING in the wake of war's devastation famine, and flood will threaten the lives of millions of Chinese this spring…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Calm Restored In Europe Czechoslovakia Only Problem Storm in Commons London, March 21
NOTWITHSTANDING the Nazi oppression m Vienna, the launching of pogroms against the Jews in Vienna and Warsaw, the continuation of cases of suicide, and the bombing massacres at Barcelona, the newspapers in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Damage in Queensland Mackay Breakwater Threatened BRISBANE
CONSIDERABLE damage was done at Mackay by a cyclone which has been active off the Queensland coast since last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Calm After Storm Less Violence In Vienna (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 28
AS a result of a warning by Marshal Goering to the Austrian Nazis against taking the law into their own…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sharp Decline in Silver Mexican Metal May Flood Market (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, March 29
AFTER having been out of the headlines since the beginning of January, silver has burst dramatically into the limelight with a sharp…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Will Weather The Storm' Tension Eases in France Many Strikers Will Return To Work (Special to "The Miner.") PARIS, April 12
FRANCE'S critical situation was temporarily eased to-day by two important happenings, and the indications are that she will again weather the storm. By 508 votes to 12 the Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Storm in Adelaide Many Suburbs Flooded ADELAIDE
A SHORT but severe and freakish hailstorm which passed over Adelaide a little before 6 p.m. yesterday caused damage estimated at…
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CHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), April 15. —Almost a third of the town of Hekitika was flooded to a depth of a foot yesterday when the Hokitika River…
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THIS SECTION OF GLENELG BEACH, usually a playground for children, suffered during the recent storm, the swings being completely surrounded by the boiling sea. The waves which broke over the seawall flooded the seafront with water more than a foot deep…
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ONLY one of the three 'planes due in Broken Hill arrived to-day, and that was 35 minutes behind schedule. The others had to turn…
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