Moving Eastward Cyclone Still Unabated
At 10 a.m. to-day Mr. Mares issued a fresh warning to shipping:-- Southerly gales and rough…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods & storms, 1927
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After the Deluge Damage to Roads Wauchope
It is now possible to form some estimate of the enormous damage resulting from the deluge of rain. The Hastings Shire Council is among tho biggest sufferers…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Out of the Storm
It was a dove (so we are told) that brought to Noah the news that the Deluge had ceased. A dove flopped in through the front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carnival Spirit Shown at Randwick Doncaster in a Deluge
Yesterday was Doncaster Day at Randwick--one of the most eagerly anticipated days of the year. Set in lovely autumn weather, the beginning of the post-summer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclone's Rage Makambo's Voyage Swept by Waves
AFTER a terctic struggle with the elec[?] the small steamer Makambe cost into Sydney today, a day late…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arrived in Storm From Fremantle
S.S. KAROOLA, Melwraith, McEacharn passenger steamer, entered the Heads yesterday morning, in the midst of a rain squall, terminating her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tugs and Trawlers for Riverina Rescue Should Navy Have Helped? Second Cyclone Added to Task Trackless Coast Swept by Storm
HOPES for the safe transshipment of the Riverina's centred in the tugs St. Giles and St. Olaves, which are taking pumps and other salvage gear to the stranded…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →City Is Swept by Fierce Rain Storm Large Areas Under Water Gale at 46 Miles an Hour Still More Is Promised
POUNDING through at a velocity of 46 miles in a south-westerly direction, the wind from the Pacific yesterday carried the storm forward in a fresh onslaught on the coast. From early morning those who had hoped for a fine day were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cyclone Cup Certainty of Mud "Form" All Upset
Even if it be finally decided that Randwick will stand racing at all tomorrow the trade cannot possibly be otherwise than a sea of mud--soft and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney's Worst Cyclone Wreckage by Land and Sea
ROOFS OF SHOPS in Pymble, opposite the station, lifted bodily and hurled into Gordon-road. AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE for the owners of this house is in store for them--their roof was blown clean off--at Pymble…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Tug's Battle. In Teeth of Gale. "Terrible Weather."
Leaving Newcastle shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning to proceed to the aid of the Riverina, the tug St. Olaves, after fighting its way down the coast in the teeth of a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm Damage in City and Suburbs
ROOF WHIPPED OFF.—The roof was shipped off the Marine Drive Service Station at Rose Bay last night, and deposited in New South Head-road. (See also picture below). CAR FULL OF BRICKS.—A car in the garage was filled with bricks from the walls. The damage was extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Storm's Thrust Motorists Should Be Careful
Shrieking like a legion of demons, the wind swept through the northern suburbs throughout the whole of the night…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Good Night, Bill! McGale Sends Edwards To Sleep
HILLY EDWARDS, the Newcastle boy, and middleweight champion of Australia until a fortnight ago, struck something…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kissed! Makambo Captain Wild Storm Thankful Women
The sea has not lost its romance. The passengers on the Island steamer Makambo can vouch…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storm Moderates All Hands Cheerful Melbourne
A hopeful wireless message was received by Huddart, Parker. Ltd., to—day, regarding the stranded vessel. It was to the effect that, although…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Live Wire Menace Three Electrocuted Tragic Toll of Cyclone Youth Badly Burned by Current Two Drowned in Flooded Gutters
THREE men were killed as the result of having come into contact with live wires which had been blown down in the suburbs during last night's Another was badly burned by becoming entangled in some…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Black Easter Ends in Storm, Death and Ruin Six Dead Mad Fury of Cyclone Bodies in Water Fatal Flashes of Live Wires and Lightning. Terrific Damage
Six lives were lost, several people were injured and a vast amount of property damage was caused by the 64 miles-an-hour cyclone, which, roaring up from the South Coast, flayed Sydney and suburbs last night. It is 15 years since a gale has charged at the city with such savage force. Before its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Riverina. Bumping on Beach. Gale Intensifies. Passengers Still on Board
The position of the interstate passenger steamer Riverina which grounded on the Victorian coast, to the west of Gabo island shortly after 7 o'clock on Sunday night, is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Terrific Storm Brings Death and Devastation a Night of Terror Gale Wrecks Houses Services Fail at Manly Boats Stop: No Light or Trams "Settled Weather in 48 Hours"
EVERYWHERE, Sydney's night of has left wreckage in tis wake. House were torn and flooded. Electric lights failed. Fences and chimneys were blown. Trees snapped like…
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