Storm Holds Up Big Flight Oakland (Cal.)
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam stated this evening that, as there is a storm between here and Honolulu, she will not start on her world flight…
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Lugger's Battle with Cyclone. Now Safe at Darwin. Fears for Other Vessels. DARWIN
After having been lashed by gales for two days and weathered a cyclone off Darwin, a lugger, owned by the Northern Territory Pearling Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ordeal in Mangrove Swamps Two Of The Victims Of Cyclone Rescued Boats Ashore Darwin
BEVAN COCHRANE and Jimmy Ah Hee were brought back to Darwin to-day by Arthur Tye and Captain Scott, who had been searching…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leaking Steamer Fights Storm Engines Awash, Pumps Failing, 400 Miles Race Freighter Stands by Stricken Ship Brisbane
LEAKING badly, with the engine-room awash and one boiler out of commission, the steamer Haiping wirelessed this afternoon for assistance…
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VIC HEY, who looks like being the storm centre of a dispute between the Toowoomba and Ipswich Rugby Leagues. Hey will be one of Australia's hopes in the next English tour…
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The Darwin pearling fleet is safe. It suffered little harm in the cyclone which swept the pearling grounds on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Cyclone at Darwin Blows Spokes From Wheels
The cyclone which devastated Darwin last Wednesday night blew the spokes from the wheels of a howitzer gun in the town and did much other damage. These special pictures to the "Herald" and others on the illustrations page, depict some of the damage. On the top row of the composite picture above are shown the damaged howitzer gun, and Sergeant Rawlings's home, which slid off the piles during the cyclone. An aboriginal who was sleeping beneath the house was killed. In…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coaster Not Reported Fierce Gale Hits Shipping
WHIPPING up heavy seas, a fierce gale is raging off the coast. The steamer Dellie, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclonic Storm Grips City and Country Man Is Electrocuted by Fallen Wires Militia Camp Washed Out During The Night Flood Fear in North
NEW SOUTH WALES is in the grip to-day of the cyclonic storm which caused havoc and floods in Northern Australia. Torrential rain is drenching the greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World Flight Delayed Storms Deter Woman Mrs. Putnam Mat Leave Today San Francisco
REPORTS of headwinds and storms over 800 miles of her course to Honolulu caused Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone at Darwin Leaves Trail of Unroofed and Ruined Houses and Lays Waste Surrounding Country
Dr. Fothergill's home at Myilly Point. The occupants spent the night in a motor car beneath the building. Surrounding trees were blown down or stripped of their branches…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Luggers All Safe. Shelter During Cyclone. Warned by Radio. First News of Fleet. Darwin
The pearling luggers for which grave fears were felt after the cyclone which swept Darwin are all safe, having reached shelter just in time…
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This scene was typical of many during the recent floods in the United States. A woman and her baby are being lowered to a boat before her home is undermined and destroyed by floodwaters…
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SEVERAL centres along northern coastal and inland rivers are threatened with isolation by flood. The Pacific Highway is blocked between Coramba and Grafton. Country reports to-day were:--…
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The Minister for Commerce, Dr. Earle Page, is held up by floods on his property outside Grafton, and will not be able to reach Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Wrecks Train Track Occupants Swim To Bank BRISBANE
Reports of flood damage are coming in from all parts of the State, and there have been many narrow escapes from injury…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods in France Paris
A death-roll of nine and scores of injured are reported as the result of gales and floods throughout France during the week-end. Millions of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drought Broken; Coastal Floods Threaten Wide Area Now Relieved Best Rain In IS Years In Some Parts Wheat Men's Fears
HEAVY rain deluged north-western, central, mid-western and coastal districts of New South Wales yesterday. While sheep farmers in the north-west are overjoyed with the bountiful falls, which have broken a four months' drought, wheat farmers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Torrential Rain 2 Inches Hourly; Peril of Floods Rivers Rising in the North
TORRENTIAL rain, failing at times at a rate of more than two inches an hour, lashed Sydney and a wide area…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--Twelve inches of rain has fallen since Monday, and low-lying areas of the district are flooded…
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