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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Flood Death Toll Now 15

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 2

Vienna, July 12: Flood waters on both sides of the Austro-German border continued to rise yesterday…

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Cyclones Raise Big Floods in Qsld

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

Brisbane: A two days siege against cyclonic conditions in a large triangular area of southern Queensland ended today, but serious flooding is still endangering lives and property in the State. The cuclone passed…

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Cyclone Damage

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 1

TOP: Luckiest man in the t.torm at Redcliffe, 25 mites from Brisbane, was 74-year-old pensioner A. L. Johnson, shown here standing beside his home (left) which is stilt intact. The house next door is shattered. It was lifted from its 10-ft high stumps and crashed to the ground, only 10 inches from Johnson's…

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Floods

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 1

Sydney, July 14: Danger of serious floods on the North Coast has pasted, but in Queensland…

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Floodwaters Recede Leaving Damage Trail

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 1

Sydney: Floodwaters on the far northern N.S.W. coast are receding today, leaving in their wake damage estimated at nearly £million. Those people who have…

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Clean Up After Flood

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 July 1954 · page 4

Sydney: Hundreds of north coast flood victims have begun the heart-breaking task of cleaning up…

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Flood Damage

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 July 1954 · page 11

FLOODWATERS swirl through a street in. Burgenhausen near the Austrian-German border, after the disastrous floods, which hilled 15 people, and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage…

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Hungary Seeks Soviet Aid in Flood Battle

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 1

Vienna, Sunday: The Hungarian Government has asked Soviet troops to help in the flood battle. The floods are worsening by the hours…

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Floods Swamp Indian Homes

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

New Delhi, July 29: Entire villages were swept away in large areas of India when rivers, swollen by…

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Food for Flood

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

Washington, Thursday: President Eisenhower today of Cered to send American food to victims of thc Danube River floods, in Europe, including those…

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FLOOD TOLe in India

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 3

Katmandu, Sunday: The deathroll in Nepal's worst floods of this century has risen to at least 60…

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US Food For Flood Victims

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 11

New York, August 2: President Eisenhower has offered to send American food to victims of the…

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Dog Saved From Flood

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 11

Berlin, Monday: A dog, chained to his kennel, drifted about 385 miles down the Danube, from Passau,…

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Flood Toll in Persia, India; Big Death Roll

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 1

London; Tuesday: Thousands were left homeless today by floods which covered vast areas of Persia, East Pakistan, and North west India, and threatened China…

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Floods Delay the Census

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 11

Flooding of the Paroo River north of Wanaaring has held up census returns for the Dalling Division…

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Floods Take Heavy Toll

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 1

London, August 3: Thousand of people were left homeless yesterday by floods which covered vast…

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Heavy Rain in City

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 7 August 1954 · page 3

Torrential rain swept over tbs city at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. Thirty-one points were recorded at the Post Office…

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Floods Isolaie N.S.W. Town

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 3

Sydney: Floodwaters from three rivers are still isolating the small township of Goodooga, in north-western…

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1,000 Dead In Nepal Floods

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 10

London, August 17.—Monsoonal floods have taken nearly 1,000 lives in Nepal. The Speaker of the…

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"The Barrier Miner" Daily Strips Juliet JONES----Storm Signs

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 8

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