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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1926

1,452 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 73

Show Triumphs Continue More Huge Crowds At the Flood Tide Day of Attractions

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 4

Interest in the Show yesterday, especially among the officials, centred largely upon the possibility of further attendance records, and of eclipsing…

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Heavy Rain. In Riverina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 13

The rain which spread into thewestern and southern areas of the State during the weekend had extended through most of the remaining districts of the State by 9 a.m…

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Cyclone Hits Islands Wellington (N.z.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 1

A wireless message from the Resident Commissioner of Cook Islands reports that the fruit crops were extensively damaged by a cyclonic storm…

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Storm at Hay Hay

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 1

Severe thunderstorms have swept the district during the last two days, with heavy falls of rain. Lightning struck a wireless aerial in the town,…

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Suffering in the Rhine. First the War, then the Deluge

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 14

The whole Rhine district is again plunged into unspeakable suffering, famine and despair. The heavy snows of December, followed by almost incessant…

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CYCLONE. Buildings Demolished. Damage at Trangie. Trangie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 13

Trangie was struck by a cyclone at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain and vivid lightning. Churches, halls, houses, trees—everything in…

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Violent Storm Lightning Causes Fires Women Terrified Adelong

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 9

A terrific thunderstorm accompanied by vivid lightning, passed over the town Inst night. One flash set fire to the wiring connections of the…

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Cyclone Havoc Trangie Suffers Fifty Homeless Two Women Badly Hurt TRANGIE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 1

The tail-end of a violent cyclone struck Trangie late this afternoon, and caused extensive damage. Two women were injured badly…

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Havoc of Country Storms Trangie's Plight Lightning Flashes Cause Adelong Fires Trangil

Evening News · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 10

WHILE THE TOWN of Trangie it recovering from yesterday's cyclone, Adelong reports a thunderstorm of unusual violence…

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Torado Tranche's Plight Storm 100 Yds. Wide Residents Want Help Trangie

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 9

A large portion of the town of Trangle to-day resembles heaps of broken bricks, bent Iron, and broken woodwork, following the…

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Tea Cup Storm Australian "Propaganda" Cheery Gilligan Veterans Differ About English Bowling

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 1

Such outstanding figures in English cricket as "Plum" Warner and Arthur Gilligan, do not endorse the storm of protest which has arisen in certain quarters in England about the Australian writers' cricket articles, Gilligan describes it as "a storm in a…

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Victorian Floods Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1926 · page 1

Torrential rain fell yesterday at Swanhill, 214 points being registered. A storm cloud burst on the farm of G. D. Bryden, and within half an hour…

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Deluge of Indecency

Watchman · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 3

From New York (March 20) comes word that the first evidence of the purity crusade is contained in an accusative report by the New York Society for the…

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Storm Damage. The Trangie Cyclone. Scenes of Desolation. Trangie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 11

A survey or the scene of last sight's storm confirmed the fact that the estimate of damage was not exaggerated. Houses were flattened, timbers broken into matchwood…

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Trangie Cyclone Trangie

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 1

The township presents a scene of desolation after, yesterday's cyclone. The damage will run into thousands of pounds…

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Victims of the Cyclone One Woman Dead Trangie

Evening News · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 10

Mrs. Ayres, one of the women injured during the cyclone on Tuesday, died last night. The other casualty, Mrs. Wheatly is…

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Cook Islands. Damage by Storm. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 14

Reports from the Ressident Commissioner concerning last week's storm in the Cook Islands indicate that in Rarotonga there has been a loss of 75 per cent, of the banana crop,…

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KITCHENER Story of Death at Sea in Storm London, April 6

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 5

The "Daily Express" features a striking article by Mr. A. C. Fox Davies, the barrister, who, in wartime, served with the law branch…

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Eighty Men Missing Ten Boats Sink in Storm Jap. Fishing Disaster Tokio

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 1

According to despatches from Hokkaido, ten fishing boats after a hard fight against a storm capsized off Muroran yesterday, with…

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Thunderstorm at Adelong. Adelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 11

The post-office was stiuck by lightning during the height of a terrific thunderstorm last evening. The wiling apparatus of the Adelong telephone exchange, connected with the…

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