The Gathering Storm
Recent development in various places having reference to the political life of our people in the sense of interference (with the design of destruction) point…
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Floods & storms, 1948
192 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 10
Broken Hill and District Lashed by Gales
Following week-end fulls further rain was experienced in Broken Hill and district early Monday morning, making the total local fall from 9 a.m…
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The White Cliffs area and right down to Yalcowinna, on the Broken Hill side suffered as a result of last Sunday's dust and wind. The storm was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gales In Wicannia Roofs Disrupted and Fences Damaged
Goles have lashed the Wilcannia district. Roofs have been disrupted, fences blown down trees lopped about, and the telephone wires and the fight rension cobles of the electricity supply put into various states of disorder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dry Feed Flattened Raging Storm Damages Border Fance
Almost if not certainly an all time record dust and wind storm swept the northern half of the Far West on Sunday last and great damage to feed and to the border fence between Willangle and the Queensland border was done. Holes were left in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tide Floods Pt. Augusta
HOMES WERE FLOODED and water flowed down the main street when Port Augusta had its highest tide for 15 years on Monday. Top—Hotel Augusta at Port Augusta West was completely surrounded by water. Bottom—Fishing boats…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wild Gale Sweeps Harbor Ships Lashed From Moorings
Sydney, October 22,—The British motorship "Hoperak" (5,179 tons) this morning broke her moorings and crashed against the wharf today. The freighter dragged her anchors and smaller ships and lighters broke their moorings in a wild…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Black Mountain Village Devastated Cyclone Damages All In Path
Tamworth, October 28.—The village of Black M[?]uk eight miles front Guyra, was de[?]toted by a cyclone [?] struck it late this afternoon. The storm lasted for ten [?] and caused widespro[?]d damage to homes and building, cut…
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Melbourne. November 5.—Unlikely starters are: Ottway Stakes. Nasrani: Final Handicap. Royal Title. Following a tropical downpour parts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victim Of Storm In Adelaide
Adelaide, November 8.—Although it had been thought that despite the widespread damage to property caused by a gale which swept Adelaide on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Over Hirohito in Tokio Possibility Of Abdication
Tokio, November 13.—The description by Sir William Webb, Australian chairman of the International War Crimes Tribunal, of the Emperor Hirohito as "a leader in crime," has aroused a storm in Allied circles here. The possibility of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm In S. A. Causes Explosion Two Men Killed At Port Lincoln
Adelaide, November 14.—During an electrical storm last night two men were killed and a third seriously injured in an explosion in a refrigeration section of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tree Kills Girls During Storm
Sydney — Two sisters who were rounding up cows were killed in Nambucca district when a tree was blown on them during a thunder storm. Their parents have a farm, four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kars Station Hit By Storm
Kars Station also suffered damage from the freak storm on Sunday which cut a swathe, about a quarter of a mile wide…
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Melbourne, November 16. — Severa storms between Wangaratta and Albury and even into N.S.W. occurred late this afternoon. Trees have been uprooted and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Damage To S.A. Home
A BACK CHIMNEY was demolished and bricks thrown 40ft. when the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. S. Holden, of Holden Avenue, Broadview, S.A., was struck by a thunderbolt…
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Bombay, November 23. — Seven persons were killed and 100 injured in the worst cyclone ever recorded in Western India…
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Bombay, November 23.— Twelve persons were killed in the cyclone which battered Bombay yesterday. The city was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Ship Battered By Storm
Halifax, November 24—American coastguard and Canadian search planes are looking for the storm battered British freig[?]ter, Hope Star, which it is feared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sympathy On King's Illness Flood Of Cables
London, November 24.—Cable lines into London from the British Commonwealth and many other parts of the world carried record traffic yesterday…
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