Nightmare Trip Chinese Ship Battered in Gale Newcastle
After a nightmare voyage down the coast in the teeth of a 60-mile-an-hour gale, the Chinese steamer Sung Peng…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods & storms, 1935
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Disaster Pearling Luggers Crews Lost Fury of Cyclone Perth
At first thought to be only a minor blow the willy willy which swept over the sea now appears to have caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →21 Pearl Luggers Missing Heavy Loss of Life In Cyclone PERTH
THE storm which was thought to be only of minor dimensions now appears to be the greatest tragedy that has ever overtaken the pearling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fear Great Cyclone Tragedy: Three Wrecks 21 Luggers Still Missing 20 Drown, and No Report of 170 Steamer Finding Death In Seas Of North
BROOME, Friday.--Reports of the finding of the wreckage of three luggers indicate the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide Floodwaters. Mr. H. H. Dare to Report on Scheme
Mr. H. H. Dare, of Roseville, who recently retired from the position of senior commissioner of the Water Conseivatlon and Irrigation Commission[?] has been appointed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →How It Feels To Face Death In Cyclone Five Days Of Hell In Pearling Lugger
ONE has actually to experience a North-West cyclone to get an idea of its elemental fury. Except for a falling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inland Deluge Alice Springs
The heaviest rains for years have fallen in the southern portion of the Northern Territory and reports at Alice Springs indicate heavier falls…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →35 Lives Lost Cyclone Toll May Be More Five Boats Still Missing
BROOME, Sunday.--It is now known that five boats were sunk in the cyclone, with an estimated loss of 35 lives. There…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm. Graphic Stories By Rescued Crews. Death-roll May Be 135. PERTH
It is known definitely that four luggers are wrecked on the Lacepede Islands and that the lives of at least 37 Asiatics have been lost, as the result…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →800 MILES Dash By N.T. Doctor Flooded River Alice Springs
COATLESS, shirt sodden with rain and mad from head to foot, Dr. D. J. Reilly, medical officer at Alice Springs, arrived back here to-night at 7.15, having left Tennant's Creek, 340 miles away,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gale's Fury Crew's Grim Ordeal Auckland (N.z.)
"We are lucky to be alive," said a member of the crew of the steamer Hurunui, which arrived from Liverpool to-day, with a cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Four New Bills And Orgy Of Gagging Govt. Election Deluge Business Done in Thehouse Guillotine Falls On Five Measures Long Sitting
FOUR new bills were introduced into the Legislative Assembly yesterday, and five other treasures were gagged and guillotined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclonic Storm. £10,000 Damage to Orchards. Hail As Big As Hen's Eggs. Perth
Damage estimated al £10,000 was done when a cyclonic storm, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, swept through the fruit-growing district of Bickley, about 20 miles from Perth…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In a Sea Strewn with Wreckage Koolinda's Story of Tragedy How 18 Survivors Were Saved Fierce Storm Darwin
AFTER standing, well out to sea in a severe storm, the steamer Koolinda, on her way to Danwin, sailed for two days through a sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallaby Flesh Flooded Settlers' Diet -- Varied by Peanuts
DARWIN, Tuesday. -- Imprisoned by the flooded country of the Daly River district, settlers have been forced, through lack of other supplies,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →40 LOST Broome Cyclone BROOME
At least 40 lives are known to have been lost in the cyclone that swept over the pearling grounds, and 12 luggers, carrying 100 men, are still…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Storm Damage Assisting Settlers PERTH
The hailstorm which swept Bickley Valley in the Kalamunda district, caused damage now estimated at more than £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Ducks Suffocated W.a. Cyclone Causes £20,000 Damage
PERTH, Wednesday.--In a cyclonic storm which swept the Bickley Valley, in the Kalamunda district, late yesterday, 40 ducks were suffocated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm in the West. Destroys Mission Buildings
The news of the hurricane in the north-west quarter of West Australia contains heartbreaking news of the destruction wrought in the aboriginal…
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