Storm Raised Over Picture
IF US NAVAL security chiefs had known of this picture, it would never have been released. It shows a phase of the first guided missile attack against the Communists in Korea, all…
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Floods & storms, 1952
203 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 11
Deck Split in Storm
Perth. — The freighter Silver Ash arrived at Fremantle from Fort Pirie yesterday with two splits 4ft…
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BELGRADE, Yugoslav stamp experts have declared a flood of rare stamps of the old…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Race Storm Blows Over
Sydney.—The A.J.C. stipendiary stewards took no action yesterday when an inquiry into a change of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Over City Power Main Hit By Lightining; Big Blackout
Broken Hill was blacked out shortly ofter 6 o'clock lost night when lightning struck a high tension main and put the M.A.N. generator at the Council's powerhouse out of action. The city experienced the most severe thunderstorm for many…
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An A.N.A. passenger plane on the direct Broken Hill-Sydney service had to return here last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Storm Worst for Years Eighty Points Of Rain, No Intakes
One of the most severe electrical storms ever experienced in Broken Hill brake over the city, shortly after 6 p.m. on Tuesday and continued in several spasms until the early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Delays Sydney Plane
Encountering a heavy Electrical storm over Parkes last night the A.N.A. piano which left for Sydney at 5…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fierce Storm Hits Adelaide Big Trail of Damage Left in Many Areas
Adelaide.—Houses were unroofed, plateglass windows were shattered, and trees were blasted by lightning when a violent electric storm and gale tore through the city and suburbs early this morning. After rumbling thunder, mounting…
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London, Wednesday, — The first of this winter's gales hit the coast of Britain and Europe. A 60…
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LISTING 11 DEG. to starboard, the interstate freighter Delamere arrived at No. 11 Berth Port Adelaide yesterday. The ship listed when its cargo of steel from Fort Kemb'a slipped in a gale during…
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Sydney.—The flooding of rivers in southern N.S.W., caused by torrential rain during the weekend, has…
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Sydney, October 27.—Several towns and villages on the for south coast are isolated by Goodwaters,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Over U.S. Import Cuts Reprisals Threatened By Four Countries
Geneva, october 29: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Holland have threatened to cut imports of the United States goods as a reprisal against U.S. import…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press State Floods
Sydney, — Floodwaters swirling down the Murrumbidgee River is expected to divide Wagga in two tonight. Only a few residents…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Freak Gale Hits City; Damage Over Wide Area
Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a freak storm whicch struck Broken Hil[?] just after 7 p.m. on Saturday. Main damage was confined to a narrow strip about a quarter of a mile wide, extending from the Memorial Oval to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →City Battered Before Cyclonic Blast Path of Devastation Left by Freak Storm Buildings And Properties Shattered But Nobody Injured
A cyclonic blast battered sections of the city in a torrid few minutes early on Saturday night. Sweeping through the city in a narrow strip roughly from west to east, it unroofed houses, flattened garages…
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Damage to city electricity supply lines caused by freak weekend storms had been almost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pensioners Hit By Storm Appeal For Aid (To the Editor)
Sir,—Last Saturday's storm did extensive damage in some sections of our city, but as far as I can ascertain the…
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Local police have received a communication from the Social Welfare Department,…
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