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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1953

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Gales Showing Signs Of Easing

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

Sydney, May 8.—The storms and fierce [?] which have lashed the NSW coast for the last…

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Floods Stop Voters

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

Sydney: The electors in number of districts in N.S.W. will not be able to vote today in the Senate…

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Flooded Lines Delay Trains in North N.s.w

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

Sydney—Railway engineers worked throughout the night and early today in attempts to clear the flooded main north N.S.W. railway lines on which six trains…

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Floods Stop Voters

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

Sydney: The electors in number of districts in N.S.W. will not be able to vote today in the Senate…

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Flooded Lines Delay Trains in North N.s.w

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

Sydney—Railway engineers worked throughout the night and early today in attempts to clear the flooded main north N.S.W. railway lines on which six trains…

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Gales Batter Coast of S. A.

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 May 1953 · page 1

Adelaide—A 70-m.p.h. gale bettered South Australian coastal areas yesterday, smashing seawalls and jetties, causing one death, and doing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage…

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Ships Battered In Gale

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 1

Adelaide, May 20.—Several ships received a battering in the gale on Sunday night and Monday. The…

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Stop Press Fighting Gale

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 12

Sydney: A small partly-crippled french motor ship is making a gallant light against a strong westerly gale today to reach the…

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Storm Caused Comet Crash

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 3

New Delhi, June 7.—A court of inquiry into the Comet crash near Calcutta in May, when all passengers…

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41 Dead in Jap Storms

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 2

Tokio, Monday: Police reported that 41 people have died and many have been injured in torrential storms…

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Storm Caused Camet Crash

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 6

New Delhi: The Court of inquiry into the Comet crash near Calcutta in May when all passengers and…

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Gale Damage in Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 2

Adelaide: Adelaide had its coldest day for 10 months yesterday, when polar air driven by a south-westerly…

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Political Storm on Capital Punishment

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 4

London, Friday—A political storm over capital punishment may arise from revelations in the Christie mass murder case at the Old Bailey…

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Political Storm on Capital Punishment

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 4

London, Friday—A political storm over capital punishment may arise from revelations in the Christie mass murder case at the Old Bailey…

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376 Perish in Floods

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

Tokio, Sunday: Police to-night reported 376 dead, 1060 missing and 934 people injured on Kyushu Island,…

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Flood Toll in Japan Nears 1,000

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 1

Tokio, June 29.—Rain on Japan's southern island of Kyushu stopped for the…

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Japanese Floods Toll

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 1

Tokio, Monday—Hundreds of American soldiers today labored to evacuate Japanese farmers to safety after the week-end floods More than 400 people have been killed. There are 510 missing and 759 injured…

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Floods In Korea

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 1

Seoul, July 7.—Torrential rains today were reported to be playing havoc with both United Nations…

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Danger of Flood Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 1

The rising Onkaparinga River, Swollen by heavy hills rain, is threatening to flood 14 houses on flat land at…

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Sydney Has Flood

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 July 1953 · page 6

Sydney: Shops and houses were flooded and cars were stranded when torrential rain fell in Sydney…

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