Late News From Flood Area
The position of towns In most danger from the flood late last night were:-- Wagga.--The river rose to 28 feet, and is still rising slowly. No rain since early…
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5000 CHARGES Storm Breaks on Capone CHICAGO
The Federal Government's assault on "Scarface" Al. Capone came to another climax today with the indictment of Capone and 68 of his vassals in a great prohibition conspiracy. FIVE thousand separate offences…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods at Gundagai
A photograph of Gundagai, taken late on Friday afternoon, showing the effect of the floods. The picture shores the tops of the saleyards above the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flooded Rivers Are Falling Big Danger Seems to Have Gone Records Not Reached Damage to Property
Reassuring reports from the flood areas in the south state that, though the rivers and creeks are much above normal, the danger of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →300 Lost Biscay Disaster French Str. Capsizes in a Gale Paris
A terrible disaster has overtaken a French excursion steamer, the St. Philbert, a small vessel of 189 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Floods. Danger Passes. a Trail of Damage
Latest reports from the flood-affected areas of central and southern New South Wales indicate that the climax has passed, and swollen rivers are falling. On all systems…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Country News Flood Damage
GUNDAGAI, Monday.--The damage in Gundagai Shire through the flooding of the Murrumbidgee and its tributaries is estimated at £7000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Up Tree Vic. Flood Rescue Melbourne
Walter Frederick Smith, aged 28, a farm hand at Wodonga, had a desperate fight for life yesterday when a boat in which he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Danger of Flood Not Now Acute Waters Falling Inland Less Rainfall
THE heavy rain to which the inland areas of the State have been subjected for so long broke during the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipowners Flood the Market with Workless Grave Indictment by Taylor Report Denied
Here is a straightforward exposure of the callous manner in which the ship-owning interests in Sydney have flooded the labor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Snag Saved Him From Death Grim Fight with Flood Waters
ALBURY, Sunday. -- Exhausted and fainting, Thomas Smith, employed on a farm near Splitter's Creek, was rescued just in time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wagga Was Saved Flood by Nine Inches River Rose Above 1925 Disaster Level
WAGGA, Sunday. -- A few inches of extra banking prevented the Murrumbidgee flooding here during the night. In the 1925 floods the river broke over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coastal Gale Damage
Unemployed at a La Perouse camp to-day repairing damage done to the roof of their home during taxi night's gale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sleuthing Storms How Radio Rules the Waves
Radio may soon be used to trace the source of every thunderstorm in progress within two or three thousand miles of the observer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coastal Gale Steamer Puts Back Sea Rising
A moderate gale operated at South Head from midnight until, daylight to-day, the wind averaging 40 miles an hour from the south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Whirlwind Havoc England Again Is Storm-centre Woman Killed London
A terrific whirlwind, which killed one person, and injured ten, struck Birmingham to-day. Hundreds of trees were rooted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →400 Dead in Terrible Shipwreck Disaster Overtakes French Excursion Steamer Capsizes in Storm London
Terrible loss of life occurred when the French excursion steamer St. Philbert, laden with picnickers, sank in the Bay of Biscay. The death roll is now estimated at over 400…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Devastating Storm Sweeps Across Europe and England Steamer Sunk in Bay of Biscay. 400 Excursionists Believed to Have Perished. LONDON, June 15
A storm swept across portions of Europe and England leaving death and desolation in its wake. About 400 persons are believed to have perished when the pleasure steamer, Saint Philbert, turned turtle in the Bay of Biscay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Floods. Improvement Expected But Settlers Warned
Light rain which fell yesterday in southern and central inland districts of New South Wales caused flooded rivers to rise slightly in a number of places, and retarded the drainage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Murrumbidgee in Flood at Wagga
It was on this site at Wagga recently that the big Riverina rally was held. The bowling green and club-house are on the left…
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