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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
175 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 9
Adelaide—The flooded Finke River threatens to cut the NorthSouth Railway line just above the S.A. border in the next few days. A radio message from Henbury Station reported this to the Alice Springs Flying Doctor Base today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide, Jan. 9.—Floodwaters 5ft deep are flowing over the railway line at F[?]nke, 150 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FIRST PICTURE of the floods in the Northern Territory. It shows a car trapped when attempting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two young women school teachers who say that their thirst for knowledge has invoked within them a spirit of pioneering plan to get to Alice Springs, floods or no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New York, January 13. — Thirty-seven people died Sunday in America's worst storms this winter. The Storms—bringing snaw, wind sleet, and rain, to New England…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide—"The Ghan"the Port Augusta Alice Springs train ploughed through 15in. of water flooding the line at Finke with about 30 cheering passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A freak hail-storm which broke over an area extending over Broughton Vale and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane.—The most disastrous flood since 1941 has isolated several suburban areas of Townsville from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →San Francisco, Wednesday. —Floodwaters swept destructively through the coastal plains of California…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →San Francisco, January 21.—Floods on the coastal plains of California and Oregon have caused at least…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain which fell in paits of Broken Hill yesterday, was described as the heaviest for several years. The registration for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. today was 64 points, a further 40 points had fallen up till 2 p.m. There was no intake in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City streets were quickly flooded last night when a torrential downpour fell between 6.45 and 7.15 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A tropical storm swept the city about 11.45 o'clock last night. Sixty six points of rain fell flooding streets, gutters and some houses in the low lying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although Broken Hill received 66 points of rain in a violent electrical storm at about midnight on Tuesday, neither of the local reservoirs received any benefit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane.—A patient in floodbound Ayr Hospital will receive a blood transfusion as a result of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thunder storms, accompanied by some heavy rain, were reported west of Broken Hill in S.A. last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thunder storms, accompanied by some heavy rain, were reported west of Broken Hill in S.A. last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney.—When a freak storm wrecked a small wooden house in Somerton, Northern N.S.W., yesterday, the occupant, 80-year-old Charles Watson, was left…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London, Sunday.—At least 108 British lives were lost today, when the North Sea whipped up its greatest fury in living memory arid laid waste the east coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paris.—High tide flooded the Dunkirk suburbs. At Calais the seawall was broken and hundreds [?]f acres of farmlands flooded. No…
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