700 Watery Graves Climax of French Flood Terrors PARIS
The flood devastation continues throughout the south-west of France, and it is estimated that 700 persons are dead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods & storms, 1930
1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 83
English Gale Havoc
The side of a house in Waltham-stow blown out by the gale that recently caused extensive damage in England. The occupants were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Liner Anchored in Gale Nieuw Zeeland Brings Wild Animals
For the first time since 1923, Captain Kroef, of the liner Nieuw Zeeland, was twice forced to anchor on the run down the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heard by the Way Storm In Camera—Bull Roars all Night—Good Turns by D—Fools —Dog Wept for Horses—Municipality's Birthday, etc. N[?]sy Motor Cars
FOR not having sufficient silencer on his motor car, Thomas Rupert Donnelly, was fine 10. with 8/ costs, at Penrith Police Court on Monday. For…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Flood Death Toll Officially Placed At 500 Minimum "War Outdone" Devastation in Southern Areas Tales of Horror President and Premier Inspect Paris
EYEWITNESSES report that the flooded area of southern France is even more horrible to contemplate than were the shell-shattered departments of 1914-1918. THE breakdown of communications is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N. Territory Floods Darwin
Recent floods destroyed 20 chains of railway, also there are wash aways in five places along the line. The 64-mile bridge is damaged. Breakdown gangs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clay, Not Mud Trans. Line's Foundation Flood Damage £55,000 MELBOURNE
The Commonwealth Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Gahan) denied to-day that the Trans-Australian line was founded on a sea of mud…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King's Sympathy for Flood Victims London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)
THE King has sent the following telegram to the French President: "I have learned with deepest concern of the disastrous inundations which have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →East-west Railway. Work of Repair Gangs. Lifting Flooded Line. Forrest
Tremendous difficulties are being experienced in repairing the damaged trans-Australian railway line on the Nullarbor Plains. From early morning until dusk many men…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Severe Floods. in Northern Territory. Darwin
Following heavy rain, record floods are reported from various parts of the territory. There have been numerous washaways on the railway line between the 24 and 66 mile posts,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →CLOUDBURST. Causes Washaways. Three Miles of Railway. Wide Area Flooded
A heavy cloudburst near Derriwong, between Parkes and Condobolin, yesterday resulted in a terrille downpour or rain, which washed away three…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Flood Havoc. French Calamity. Heroic Rescues. 500 Houses Carried Away. LONDON, March 7
Flood devastation continues throughout the south-western district of France. A family of seven was found dead beneath the ruins of their home…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Like War Flood Shambles France Mourns Bodies Beneath Ruins Paris
THE main floods are subsiding, to reveal havoc like that of the wartime. In the Tarn-et-Garonne department…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Expected on Coast
UNSETTLED [?]ther along the coastal districts of New South Wales with heavy cam at times particularly in central and southern parts, is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fierce Storm. Sweeps Western Australia. Houses and Crops Damaged. Perth
With remarkable suddenness a fierce electrical storm swept through the south-east agricultural districts on Friday and Saturday, extensive damage being caused to crops,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Raging Floods S. Africa Now Eleven Lives Lost Capetown
AS a result of heavy rains in the Drakensburg mountains, the Great Bushman and Little Bushman rivers have become raging torrents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Devastated France. Flood's Terrible Effects. Worse Than War Period. London, March 8
Eye-wltncsses report that the flooded area in southern Prance 's even more horrible to contemplate than the shell-shattered districts of 1914-18. The breakdown in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Darwin Floods. Damage to Railway. Darwin
Recent floods destroyed 20 chains of railway and also caused washaways at five place3 along the line. The 64-mile bridge was damaged, and the abutments were washed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Is It the Deluge?
Last week end saw 850 employees dismissed from the New South Wales Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Department's works simply because, although there is plenty of work for them to do, there is no money with which to pay them when the work is done. "The Loan,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in France. £12,000,000 Damage. a Day of Mourning. London, March 9
It is estimated that the damage caused by floods in Southern France will reach £12,000,000. A day of mourning was observed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →