New big flood threat
KANSAS CITY, Wed.: New downpours yesterday brought fresh threats to residents of [?] Missourt and Kansas and…
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404 points of rain in cloudburst Culcairn deluge
While rainfalls were scattered in their intensity over border districts between Wednesday and yesterdayâthey averaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Surges on to £1½m. AIRFIELD
KANSAS CITY, Thurs.—A dyke broke at Sherman airfield at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, last night, flooding the 3,500,000 dollar (about £1,562,500) field after a week-long fight to save it. The crest of the flooding…
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NICE, Fri.: Ten persons were killed and 11 injured, four seriously, and 10 are believed to be still buried in…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Some South Coast roads which were flooded following heavy rain last night, have now been cleared…
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CLINTON (Iowa), Sun.: A record Mississippi River flood crest yesterday was bearing down on Clinton, an industrial city of 50,000 people. But all along Iowa’s…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Police tonight reported the flood danger on the Lachlan River appeared to have passed…
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SALT LAKE CITY (Utah), Mon.: The worst flood in the history of Salt Lake City today covered a quarter of the Utah…
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SALT LAKE CITY, Fri.: More that 200 residents left 400 homes in salt Lake City last night as flood waters broke over a railroad…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: A hole six inches in diameter was blown out of the rudder of the ANA Skyliner Tatana and an aerial torn…
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Further soaking rains fell in the district on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and 99 points were recorded at Henty…
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Heavy rains which fell in the border district during Wednesday night and yesterday morning have interrupted wheat sowing. Falls ranged from 87 points to over two…
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After a day of alternate light rain and sunshine, Tallangatta folk, late yesterday afternoon, experienced a heavy downpour. Before…
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LAUNCESTON, Fri.: Flood waters have marooned more than 130 people in and around Coles Bay on Freycinet…
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DARWIN, Mon.: Isolated heavy rain has fallen in the Northern Territory where already 100,000 cattle have died in one of the…
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LONDON, Tues.: Freak thunderstorms, with hail, last night temporarily broke Britain’ heat wave. A five-minute hurricane hit the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mob tries to storm Parliament
PUSAN (Korea), Tues.: More than 1000 demonstrators tried again and again yesterday to storm the National Assembly building,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Spring Creek ‘flooded’ punters
Poorly performed Spring Creek caused one of the biggest boil overs on the Albury race course in years when he won…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: After battling against fierce gales reaching 65mph at times, the small coastal freighter Merino…
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A cyclonic storm struck Rutherglen yesterday afternoon, causing damage estimated at many thousands of pounds. Buildings were unroofed, windows broken,…
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