Cyclone Strikes Tibooburra Great Damage and Little Rain
Christmas Eve was an evening day for Tibooburro A Cyclone struck the township that have and inflicted damage exceeding £1,000. The cyclone rose sharply and the…
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Floods & storms, 1942
72 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 4
Changeable Weather Dust Storm at Wilcannia
On Boxing Day a heavy duststorm struck Wilcannia about 11 a.m. Rising suddenly in the West it approached the town like a huge cloud with billows…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tibooburra's Xmas Eve Cyclone Mr. F. Forster Tells Of Trail Of Damage
ALTHOUGH the cyclone which struck Tibooburra on Christmas Eve lifted roofs, wrecked buildings and caused damage estimated at £1000, not a pane of glass was broken in the town. The story of the storm was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Troopers May Go
LONDON, January 7.—The Berne correspondent of the American Associated Press says that reliable information from Germany Rives special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tibooburra News Storm Follows Cyclone
Tibooburra has had some rough experiences during the last three weeks. For many months prior to the Christmas it had been mercilessly dry and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms in S. AUSTRALIA Big Trail Of Damage ADELAIDE
RIPPED by a near-hurricane, reaching a velocity of 72 miles an hour, and blacked-out by the severest dust storm on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale Covers Victoria Wiih Dust Bush Fires Threaten Townships Melbourne
THE gale which swept over Victoria on Wednesday, blanketing the State with red Mallee dust, and fanning bush fires in the Ararat district, reached its height at 9.50 p.m. with a wind (and dust) velocity of 56 m.p.h., Weather Bureau officials said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rommel's Army on Move Sand Storms Helping Nazi Retreat LONDON, January 8
TAKING advantage of heavy sand storms, which are restricting visibility. Gen. Rommel is withdrawing his forces from Jedabaya, covered by strong rearguards. This news is contained in today's Cairo communique, which adds…
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Work on repairing damage caused to Tibooburra homes and other buildings was proceeding, said a visitor from Tibooburra today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menindee Severe Dust Storm Damage to Garden
One of the worst days for a year at Menindee occurred on Monday, when a dust storm blew up and did great damage to tomato and other crops of…
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Mr. J. C. Barraclough, of Marapina Station, has spent a few days in Broken Hill this week on business. Mr. Barraclough has had a long and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press 5 Drowned in Queensland Floods
BRISBANE, Saturday.—Five persons were drowned and hundreds of thousands of pounds damage has been caused by terrific floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ivanhoe Notes Patchy Thunderstorms
The weather this week in Ivanhoe has been mainly overcast with patchy thunderstorms in isolated cases some substantial falls have been recorded, quite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms In Desert Enemy Parties Engaged (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, February 20
A SEVERE sandstorm throughout Thursday interfered with both air and land activity in Libya. This is stated in a General…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Memorial For Flood Hero
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The heroic efforts of Aircraftman F. W. Tippets, of Geelong (Victoria), who lost his life during rescue work in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bogged on Quinyambie Road Mailman's Troubles—flooded Creeks
Bogs old bother dogged Mr. H. L. Perry, the mailman, on his most recent trip from [?] Hill to Quinyambie and back, and it took him from February 11 [?] last Monday night. Amongst the reverses that beset Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Through Floods & Bogs Mr. T. Lane's Fortnight of Troubles
A fortnight to do the mail trip from Broken Hill to White Cliffs and back! That is the time it took Mr. Tom Lane (Glasson Motors) during, and after the recent drenching of the Western District…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship Battered by Gale
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—With huge seas breaking mast-high over the ship a Chinese vessel battled through heavy gales to reach an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Malayan Mine Flooded
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Raub Australian Gold Mining Company's mine in Malaya was flooded at the beginning of January after Part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale Plays Havoc with Tree
Struck by a gale during the week end, limbs of a big pepper tree in the Central Reserve were torn from the tree. Some indication of the force…
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