Storms Kill Four In Yugoslavia
BELGRADE May 20. A.A.P.— our deaths have been reported and scores of people have lost their hones in torrential thunderstorms…
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Floods & storms, 1949
685 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 35
Floodwaters Cut Off Valley
SYDNEY, Sunday.—More than 300 people living in farms or staying in guesthouses in the Burragorang Valley are isolated by floodwaters. Police said by telephone…
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SYDNEY: A few Burragorang Valley holidaymakers, in a hurry to return to Sydney, are waiting today today to cross the flooded Wollondilly Bridge at Bimlow on horseback. Most of the 200 tourists at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diplomatic Storm On Soccer Brawl
ATHENS, Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter): A minor diplomatic storm has arisen over the "Friendship Football Cup" final, in which Turkey lost to italy in a match played at Athens…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 24 A.A.P.—Hundreds of buzzards hovered over the ruined owns along the lower Amazon as villagers…
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Cardiff Urban Area Committee will ask Lake Macquarie Shire Council for £1000 grant-in-aid for flood prevention in Middle-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cardiff Pit Floods As Miners Break Into Old Workings
Cardiff Myall Extended Mine in the Cardiff district was flooded this morning when miners broke into an uncharted old working, releasing a flow of water which forced them to leave the pit…
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When miners broke into an uncharted old working yesterday morning, water flooded Cardiff Myall Extended mine, which is in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legend Of Curse Revived By Storm
A legend about a curse supposed to have been placed on buildings near an old cemetery has been revived among Stockton residents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Over 200 Dead In Brazil Floods
MACEIO (Brazil), May 26, A.A.P.—Over 200 persons are dead and hundreds are reported missing as flood waters, caused…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wanganella Delayed By Severe Gale
SYDNEY: A message from the liner Wanganella today stated that she has passed through a severe gale and would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gale In Tasman Forces Ship Off Course
AUCKLAND, May 29. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Forced several hundred miles off course by gales, the liner Wanganella, which left Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Damage To Lake Reads
Continued wet weather and frequent heavy storms had caused considerable damage to Lake Shire roads during the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm Brewing On Scholarship To Communist "Herald" Washington Service
A storm is rising quickly with the revelation that the Atomic Energy Commission had granted a scholarship to at least one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man's Life Saved By Thunderstorm "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, June 2.—Heavenly intervention saved Claude R. Stutzman, of Kansas City, when he was pinned to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What The Cyclone Did
A contrast in Cyclone pictures. Top: This awning of a shop at Merewether crashed to the footpath during the height of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Damage On Bar Beach
Top left.—stormwater in vacant land at Carrington made an ideal lake for these boys to hold a "regatta" yesterday, fop [?]ignt.—One of several broken doors at Newcastle Trades Hall where thieves broke in during the weekend and stole £30 in various amounts. Bottom left.—Foundations of the Bar Beach surf pavilion were laid bane-by the huge seas yesterday. Some "iceberg" swimmers inspecting the damage this morning. Bottom right.—Today's picture of the surfing area at Bar Beach opposite the rock pool, where thousands of tons of sand have been washed away by the rough surf…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Gales Have Moved From Coast: Small Vessel Overdue
SYDNEY: The disturbance which brought the worst June gales on record has moved to the middle of the Tasman and is making for the South Island of New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Recede in Victoria
MELBOURNE: Floods in East Gippsland were receding today. Stock losses over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Storm
IT was a beautiful day, and we were going to Auntie May's for tea. When we arrived there, I played…
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