Disaster On Holy Day Flood Kills 1000 Worshippers at Shrine
Teheran, August 22. — The bodies of more than 1,000 pilgrims have been found in a Moslem shrine at Farahzad, victims…
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Floods & storms, 1954
204 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 11
3 Ships Aground In Gale
Hongkong, August 29.—A typhoon lashed Hongkong harbor today and, drove…
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New Delhi, Sunday: Latest flood death reports say that 189 people have so far been drowned throughout India. Many of them were drowned near West Bengal…
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Belfast, Thurs.: A crowd shouted and knocked on the shuttered windows of the…
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London, Sunday: Reports of three disastrous events—more earth tremors in Algeria, a great hurricane sweeping America's Atlantic coast, and a typhoon menacing…
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New York, September 13.— The hurricane which has left a trail Of death and destruction along the eastern…
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Sydney: A cyclone is hovering only 250 miles off the New South Wales coast and could strike Sydney. The Weather Bureau said…
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Moonee Valley: Storm Flash, one of Melbourne's most consistent three-year-old fillies, scored her second win when she photo-finished Blue Amber in the Merri…
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THIS DRAMATIC RESCUE picture was taken by an officer aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer escort Blair after a hurricane swept these waters round Rhode Island, U-S. The picture shows Claire Boudreau (left), 22, Robert Boudreau (right), and their mother, Mrs. William Boudreau, clinging desperately to the…
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Rain at Silverton interrupted the Trades Hall Trust's Labor Day picnic yesterday. A large portion…
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A freak storm over the Silverton district yesterday afternoon yielded torrential rain for about 15 minutes, causing the creeks in the vicinity to run in torrents, and resulted in a 5ft. 7in. rise being registered at Umberumberka reservoir…
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Sudden heavy rain at Silverton and further west yesterday afternoon had some dramatic results: Three people were caught by rushing water and one of them, a young man, was almost drowned when swept away…
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After intermittent light rain earlier in the evening, a heavy, shower fell in Broken…
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New York, Oct. 18: The wreckage of what was once Toronto's best residonti[?] district has yielded more…
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New York: Known deaths caused by hurricane "Hazel" which struck Haiti, the United States and Canada last week, were reported at…
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Melbourne: With the Melbourne tracks ronging from fair to heavy after two days of heavy rain there were few fast gallops this morning…
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New York, Monday: The liner Queen Elizabeth, in which the Queen Mother is travelling to New York for…
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The expansion of motor transport, and the consequential great development of the oil ndustry in Australia since the close of World…
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Salerno (Italy), Oct. 27. At least 245 parsons were killed and 120 were still [?] last night after a…
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Sydney: Torrential rain last night and today caused near flooding in Sydney and surrounding districts…
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