Rain Likely. in Flood Areas
There were no indications last night of the general rains abating. Following the reports of heavy, falls throughout the State during the 24 hours ended at 9 o'clock yesterday…
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Flood Waters Devastate Railway in Junee District
The flood waters are sweeping over the railroad in many places in the junee district. Washaways, are being constantly reported. The picture, taken near Harefield, shows portion of a goods train which overturned owing to an embankment collapsing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned in Floods Visitor to Grafton Sydney Resident?
Superintendent Walker (Grafton) telegraphed to-day to the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mitchell) regarding the body of a man who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rushing Torrents Flood Peak Hill Farms Peak Hill
Exceptionally heavy rain fell early this morning--235 points being registered by 9 a.m., making a total of 725 points this month, and 1024 points…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shops, Houses Murwillumbah Flood Tweed's Rapid Rise Murwillumbah
Heavy rain was experienced in Murwillumbah yesterday, and in the districts at the head of the various arms of the Tweed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Orange, Too Biggest Flood for Years Orange
The biggest flood for many years broke over the storm water canal at 2.30 to-day. All business premises, and hotels abutting on the junction of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Wider Floods" Depression More Intense Weather Man's View
"The areas already flooded cannot as yet look for any improvement in conditions," said the Acting State Meteorologist (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Supplies Dairy Districts Flooded
Owing to the floods on the far north coast no supplies of, butter have reached Sydney from north of the Clarence River for four or five days…
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Torrential rain fell in Rockhampton in sheets last night, and at Hillside and Wandal tram lines were submerged and traffic held up for 20 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bellinger in Flood Punt Out of Action Bellingen
The heavy rains have [?] the [?] River to rise considerably. low lying farming lands being flooded. At [?] the punt which carries traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country Is Swept by Disastrous Floods Torrential Rains Cause Enormous Damage Riverina and North Coast Areas Perilous Plight of People Escaping From the Rushing Waters Still More Heavy Falls Predicted No North Coast Trains Will Run To-day Town of Junee Is Isolated
THE State is suffering one of the worst floods in its history. Enormous damage is reported from various parts, while there have been many miraculous escapes from death. The railway services have been badly disorganised, and many mail trains are being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the Water Rose a Hitherto Unrecorded Incident in the Great Flood of London, 1927
FAT, and clad in all the expensive artifices of Bond Street. Sir James Buggs sat on the lawn of his newly-acquired manor at Landem-on-Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Waters Gather Force in the North
UPROOTED by the furious gale which struck Burleigh Heads, this tree was hurled across a motor lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shining Somewhere Britain, Too Flood, Gale, Rain Sun One Hour a Month London
England's winter has been notable for the unprecedented recurrence of gales, rainstorms, and floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavens Pour Down Death Four Have Perished So Far in Floods That Have Swept the State Storm Fiends Wreak Havoc Rail Tracks Washed Away : Transport in Chaos - And the Worst Yet to Come
All nature mourns throughout the State. With relentless fury the cateracts of heaven are pouring down destruction and distress. Up till late last night, four were known to have perished in the floods. Rising rivers, swirling cascades, and raging creeks might have so far claimed more than…
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No one was more worried than the management of the Tivoli over the traffic dislocation caused by the Riverina floods. All the Tivoli artists…
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Eva Novak, who was to appear at the Crystal Palace last night in support of her picture, "The Romance of Runnibede," was delayed by the floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods (Continued from Page 2) in Victoria Record Rainfall MELBOURNE
Although Victorian country districts are not, so far, inundated to anything like the extent of the floods in New South Wales, the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three- Dead In Floods-- Latest Forecast Ominous 40 Overboard Wave Sweeps Ferryboat Seven Missing Panic in Gathering Dark San Francisco
In the busiest traffic hour, the ferryboat Peralta, when half way to Oakland and overcrowded at the bow, suddenly dipped into a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rush of Floods North and South-- Still the Rain
WHY TRAINS WERE HELD-- This is how the floods in the south broke through the railway track, tossing rails and sleepers aside into slush at Hareville. near Junee. PUSHING OFF the wreckage that the flood waters lifted on to the Kurrajong bridge, near Windsor, yesterday. When this picture was taken, rain was still falling, but the river was going down…
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