Trains Collide In Blinding U.K. Snow Storm
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—During the worst snow storms and blizzards of the winter which swept Southern England and the…
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Floods & storms, 1951
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Floods Claim 71 Lives in Morocco
RABAT (Morocco), Thursday (AAP).—At least 71 persons have been drowned and 60 others are missing in rain swollen flood…
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A violent electrical storm last night blacked out almost the whole of the Mid-Richmond area and blew down tents on the Evans Head camping reserve. The storm was accompanied by…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—English night when a sharp thunderstorm Half a dozen of the players stood on the footpath in Elizabeth Street…
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Australian captain, Lindsay Hassett, used the heavy roller for seven minutes before play resumed this morning in the Third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The wicket played easily after last night's…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Floods are threatened over a wide area of Queensland, extending from the Gulf…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Police and volunteers today evacuated families in lowlying areas as widespread flooding continued in Queensland. The Weather Bureau, in a State-wide flood advice, warned tonight that 90 per cent, of Queensland could expect moderate to flood rains for at least another 24 hours…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A New Australian lost his life, five people narrowly escaped death and great damage was done to roads in floods in North Queensland, which are now receding…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The family who left Sydney last Tuesday to walk to Melbourne and arrived at Bowral 90 miles away on Thursday,…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Four-fifths of Queensland (area 670,500 square miles) is suffering from the effects…
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CORAKI, Tuesday.—Heavy rain fell in the Mid-Richmond district today. It was widespread, and every area…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—Two hundred houses have been completed in Kempsey in the past three years, exclusive of Housing Commission…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Families have been evacuated from lowlying areas of Rockhampton and wharves stripped of cargo in…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—All available men are fighting a bush fire raging on a 50 mile front near Charleville and Wyndra, in the…
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CORAKI, Thursday.—One floodgate has been completed and machinery is on the site to start on a second in the Bungawalbyn…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Heavy rains during the past 48 hours have caused flooding along the Nepean, Hunter, Hawkesbury and George's River. The Hunter River at Maitland is one foot above flood…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—drowned in floodwaters at R He was Vincent John Black, of Mornish, about 35 miles north-west…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Rising backwaters at flood-stricken South Maitland today forced another 50 people from their homes. About 300 residents are now homeless and Maitland police warned tonight "the worst is still…
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Floods on the Hunter and Patterson Rivers, near Maitland, disrupted train services running to the North Coast and Queensland from Sydney during the weekend…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—The swollen Fitzroy River, which had inundated thousands of acres of pastoral land on the outskirts of…
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