Cyclone Blew Dead Out of House
TURIN, Thurs.: The sudden cyclone which swept through Turin yesterday killed four persons and injured 50. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods & storms, 1949
239 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 12
Fighters Crash in Violent Storm
FRANKFURT, Thurs.: Two American “Shooting Star” fighters yesterday crashed near Munich after being caught in a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →15 People Believed Drowned In Kempsey Floods: Nearly 7000 Homeless SYDNEY
KEMPSEY police believe that at least 15 persons have perished in the worst flood in the history of the far north coast town of Kempsey. Late to-night five deaths had been confirmed and one body recovered, but police believe that many more people have perished…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Except Kempsey Flood Death Roll to Grow Devastation Scenes Indescribable SYDNEY
THE official death roll in the disastrous Kempsey flood has now reached six, but as the flood waters gradually recede, police expect a far greater death roll. Communications to the stricken town are still spasmodic and it has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Batters New York
NEW YORK, Tues,: The metropolitan area of New York was battered by 70 miles an hour winds yesterday morning when a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Discount Flood Death Rumor SYDNEY
A REPORT that an unknown [?] of five had perished in the Kempsey floods was to-night discounted by the Kempsey police as “more of a rumor than a fact.” Early this morning they had been informed that three children of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stockowners Asked To Aid Kempsey Flood Victims SYDNEY
AN appeal was made to N.S.W. stockowners to-day to supply one or two head of cattle to Kempsey dairy farmers, whose herds were drowned in the flood last week-end. One Nowra breeder has donated a pedigreed Friesian bull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooding Central Australia Alleged Attack on Nurse; Man for Trial
SYDNEY, Mon.: James Ferguson, 35, cook. Boomerang St., Turramurra, was committed for trial at Hornsby police court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Caught in the Floods — Former Resident
Mrs. B.S. Kinnear, Wife of the former manager of Moonacullah Aboriginal Mission Station, writes from Sydney about her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Filthiest Display of Politics .. Condolence Motion with Flood Victims Sydney
AN 80-minute discussion by Parliament to-day on a motion of sympathy with relatives of Macleay River flood victims was described by the Speaker (Mr. Lamb) as the “filthiest display” of politics he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Macleay River Floods; Donations of Stock Asked For
The secretary of the Corowa P. A. &., H. Society (Mr. W. T. Easdown) has received the following telegram from the Executive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kempsey Flood Appeal
The Albury Apex Club is fostering an appeal for Kempsey flood victims. It intends making a h house-to-house canvass on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mitta River in Flood
HEAVY rain in the upper reaches of the Mitta River have swollen the stream, and on Friday it broke its banks in many places. Low land near Tallangatta was submerged and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Threat to Maitland
SYDNEY, Mon.: If heavy rains fall within the next few hours in the Pare and Hunter River area, Maitland will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Former Resident’s Adventures in Flood
Mrs. B. S. Kinnear, Five Cock, Sydney, writes, further of her husband's adventures in the floods at Kempsey. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Families Flood- Bound in North N.s.w
TAMWORTH, Tues.: Floodwaters covering the roads today cut off communication between Gunnedah and Tamworth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Threat Removed
GUNNEDAH, Thurs.: A fine day today removed a threat of floods by waters from the swollen Namoi River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury Apex Club to Aid Kempsey Flood Victims
Tomorrow morning 59 members of Albury Apex Club will set out on a house to house money-collecting campaign in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flood-bound Sheep Fed From Air
MOREE, Frl.: About 3000 lambs and ewes Isolated by the recent floods in the Moree district are being fed from the air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Menace Thousands
HONG KONG, Sun.: Thousands of people are already affected by a flood threatening to reach major proportions in Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →