Flood at Yunta
Adelaide—The Royal Automobile Assoctation advised this morning that the road to Broken…
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Floods & storms, 1952
203 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 11
Storm Sinks Freighter Radar Search For Crew In Lifeboats
San Francisco, January 10.—A radar search is in progress in a stormy North Pacific for four lifeboats containing 46 men. They…
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London, Thursday—The two men in the doomed freighter Flying Enterprise, who leapt into raging seas just before the ship sank late yesterday, came ashore in Falmouth today. The Flying Enterprise sank in a 60 m.p.h. Atlantic gale about 35 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Baby Girl Dies In Flood Torn From Father's Grip
Brisbane, January 10.—A 9 1/2 months, old baby girl was drowned when she was swept from her father's arms as he waded through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gale Damages Two Homes at N.b. Hill
The terrific force of a whirlwind in North Broken Hill yesterday, tore large areas of roofing off two houses and flung sheets of iron high into the air. Luckily,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Enterprise Saga Ends: Last Minute Escape by Carlsen. Dancy Freighter Goes Down in 60 m.p.h. Atlantic Gale
London, January 11.—Only a few bubbles and a mass of debris floating in the Atlantic last night market the sport where a few [?] earlier the bettered American freighter the Flying [?]prise had plunged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Repairs To Storm Damaged House Committee Formed To Help Pensioner
A committee headed by Mr. C. Vigar (president) and Mr. R. Dart (secretary) has been formed to assist Mr. H. Mitchell, 523 Radium…
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San Francisco, Monday— More than 2000 people were evacuated from their homes in San Francisco Bay area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eleven Lives in Floods; Damage
Los Angeles, Friday — Emergency crews today evacuated thousands of people from the flooded southern Californian lowlands. These were expected to suffer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thursday Is. Hit ByCyclone
Brisbane. — Radio reports, reaching Brisbane from Thursday Island told of damage by a cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Gale Continues
Brisbane, January 21.—Forty to 50 miles an hour cyclonic winds are sweeping the Gulf country in the far north of Queensland. A…
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Los Angeles, Monday. — Evacuated families were moving back into their homes today after…
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Brisbane-A £14,000 flying-boat capsized and sank in a gale at Port Moresby. The Australasian Petroleum Company owned the…
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London, Wed.—Thirty fishermen are missing in a gale which has sunk dozens of small boats off the…
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heaviest rains for 20 years have Djakarta, January 23.—The caused the deaths of [?] people on Java Island, where there are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide Storm Brings Rain, Blackouts
Adelaide, January 25.—Three days of oppressive hat weather ended last night when a violent thunderstorm visited the city and suburbs. Forty points of rain fell in on hour and the temperature fell from 98.7 at…
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New York, January 28.—Flood damages mounted today in four States as the Ohio River and tributary rivers,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big U S. Bomber Lost in Storm
London, Tuesday.— The sight of an American B36 bomber, the biggest warplane in the world, standing quietly in a snow-covered field 20 yards off the main Salisbury-Amesbury road has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hurricane Leaves Broad Trail of Destruction Main Island Of Fijian Group Battered By Worst Storm In Its History
Fiji, January 29.— Monday's hurricane left a broad trail of destruction right round the northern, eastern and south-eastern coasts of the main island, Viti Le[?]. The incomplete casualty list indicates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Of Names For Roads Petition
The Citizens Better and Safer Roads Committee is going ahead in leaps and bounds in the collection of names for its petition to…
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