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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 83

Wrecked by Fierce Gale

Evening News · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

A building which was severely damaged by yesterday's gale…

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Cyclone Causes Heavy Damage in Suburbs

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 1

Evidence of havoc wrought at Cabramatta: On the left this ruined Picture Theatre. On the right, the hotel, with verandah collapsed, and the roadway strewn with bricks from the parapet…

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Cyclone Made Chair Do Magic Carpet Act

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 2

When the cyclone struck the Cabramatta Hotel yesterday, a wicker armchair was standing at the bottom of a light well…

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Cyclone's Terrific Fury Heavy Toll in Cabramatta

The Sun · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 16

BUSINESS won't be as usual for some time.--Ruins of the Cabramatta picture theatre as they appeared to-day. (See story of cyclone's fury on inside page). FRONT DOOR to Mr. H. Bath's home, Cabramatta, used to be in line with the front gate until the cyclone lifted it bodily out of alignment…

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Into Tasman Outsize Storm Gone

The Sun · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

The storm was born, as all storms are, of a cyclonic disturbance, but because of its peculiarities of shape and intensity it was predictable,…

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Record Ride in Cyclone "Fatty" Lamb Bullocks From Canberra

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 2

Cyclones cannot keep a good cyclist down! HAVING broken "Speed" Morgan's Canberra-Sydney cycling record…

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Gale's Freaks in South Pencil Forced Through Boy's Leg

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A pencil forced 2 12 inches into a boy's leg by a flapping overcoat, and the blowing down of a…

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"Like a Tornado." The-storm at Cabramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 13

The storm swept Cabramatta, the suburb which suffered more than any other, with the force of a tornado, and with a suddenness rarely encountered outside the tropics…

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Missing Launch and Occupant Caught by Storm ?

The Sun · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 11

Anxiety is felt for the safety of a man who left Jervis Bay on Sunday on a lone trip in a small open launch to Botany Bay…

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Revellers in the Gale Stormy Shipboard Dance For Art Students

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 2

Youth, moonlight, and half a gale; and Sydney's art students dancing on the deck of the world's largest schooner!…

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Cabramatta Almost Razed by Hurricane Cyclone Rages Through Whole Town Theatre Levelled to the Ground Entire Suburb Shakes Under Tremendous Fury of 50 M.p.h.gale Shops and Houses Are Unroofed

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 1

A HURRICANE which swept Sydney yesterday afternoon played havoc in some of the suburbs. It struck Cabramatta with especial intensity, razing a large picture theatre to the ground, badly damaging an hotel, unroofing a number of houses, and snapping off hundreds of trees…

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Severe Damage at Cabramatta by Fierce Wind Storm Late Yesterday Afternoon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 16

Verandah wrenched from the front of an hotel in Railway-parade, Cabramatta. A picture theatre in John-street, Cabramatta, was completely destroyed during the height of the storm…

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Head to Hip Woman Severely Bruised Storm's Havoc Heavy Suburban Damage

The Sun · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

The tremendous force with which huge hailstones fell was a feature of yesterday's fierce storm…

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Owners and Trainers Are Antagonised W.A. Trotting Association Has Raised a Storm PERTH

Referee · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 4

The committee of the W.A. Trotting Association, of which Mr. James Brennan is the president, has issued a ukase. It is worded as follows: "Owners and controllers of stables and relusmen are warned against associating with professional punters or effecting commissions of any…

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Newcastle Gets It Too Gale at 65 M.P.H. Launches Race to Safety Hottest Day Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 1

THOUGH no damage has been reported, Newcastle experienced the westerly gale yesterday. It struck the city at midday, and…

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Terrific Wind Storm. Tears Path Through Suburbs. Tremendous Damage Caused. Picture Theatre Ruined, Crops Damaged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 13

Tearing a path through many suburbs, a terrific wind storm followed by a heavy fall of hail caused thousands of pounds' worth of damage yesterday afternoon. A strange stillness preceded the coming of the wind, which reached…

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Cyclone Roars with Havoc Force Over Sydney; Wake of Ruin No Life Lost in Whirling Menace of Torn Roofs and Crumpled Buildings Liverpool and Kogarah Bear Brunt

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 3

RAGING AT almost 60 miles an hour, a cyclone howled over Sydney yesterday and mowed a swath of desolation through southern and western suburbs. Several big buildings were torn to matchwood, and human life was saved often by a hair's…

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Storm Damage at Cabramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 12

Effecting repairs to a wrecked house, following Tuesday afternoon's tornado, in Railway-parade, Cabramatta…

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How Cyclone Made Washing Day a Wishing Day

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 24

HERE comes the bridel Much…

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Storm's Toll Destruction at Cabramatta Narrow Escapes

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 3

Terrific gusts of wind did thousands of pounds worth of damage at Cabramatta on Tuesday afternoon, when a gale swept the Central Cumberland…

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