30,000 Homeless in Ohio Floods Cincinnati
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3
MORE than 30,000 residents of the rural sections of 10 mid-western States have been forced to flee their homes, as torrential rains caused rivers and streams to overflow, inundating hundreds of square miles of farm lands…
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Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 17
SIXTEEN deaths have occurred, more than 150,000 are homeless, and the damage runs far into millions, as the Ohio River and its tributaries reached the highest stages in history,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sixteen Dead So Far: Floods in U.sa More Than 150,000 People Are Homeless, Without Food Disease Threat Added to Horrors of Starvation and Exposure Amphibian Aeroplanes-- Surf Boats for Rescue Cincinnati
The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 1
Sixteen deaths have occurred through unprecedented floods in the Ohio River and its tributaries in the States of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Play at Adelaide Heavy Rain During the Day Adelaide
The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3
OWING to heavy rain, play was impossible in the match between England and South Australia, at the Adelaide Oval…
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The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 9
Repetition of the gale may be expected in Sydney during the unsettled conditions which should govern Sydney weather for at least the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1
AN 80-mile-an-hour cyclone struck the town of Garah, 32 miles from Moree, at 7 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Killed, Widespread Damage in Terrific Storm Fifty Persons Injured Wreckage Stops Trains Cannery Collapses At Botany Park Stand Crashes
The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1
AT least one person was killed and nearly 50 were injured in a fierce tropical storm, which swept Sydney and suburbs this afternoon. Ambulances were rushe dto Botany, where it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S.A. Floods. Huge Losses. Growing Death Roll. Tragic Scenes. New York, Jan. 24
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 9
At least 23 people have died in the floods which are sweeping 12 southern and middle-western States. There are 300,000 people homeless, and…
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The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11
CINCINNATI (Ohio) in the grip of flood and fire, is suffering the worst disaster in its history…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Influenza Adds To Flood Victims' Sufferings 270,000 Homeless in U.S.A. Police to Shoot Looters Many Cities Short Of Food Huge Loss New York
The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 5
IT is now estimated that 270,000 persons are homeless as the result of the record-breaking floods caused by the Ohio River…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3
AT least 35 deaths have been caused by the worst floods in the history of the Ohio River Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Game Abandoned Play Prevented by Heavy Rain Adelaide
The Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 3
Owing to heavy rain today, the match between England and South Australia at the Adelaide Oval…
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The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 5
Ritchie, whose newly -purchased home was practically destroyed at Ermington is seen with her two-year As her kitchen was…
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The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1
Some of the 108 cows of the dairy herd of 260 belonging to Messrs. J. Noad and Son, of Smith Street, Botany, which were electrocuted during yesterday's storm. The cows came into contact with a wire fence, which had been electrified by a fallen cable…
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The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 5
Commenting on the severe rain squall experienced in Sydney yesterday afternoon, the Acting-State Meteorologist, Mr. B. Newman, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home News. Disastrous Storm
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1
The most disastrous storm experienced in Sydney for many years occurred yesterday afternoon. Pour persons, lost their lives, and many were injured, some seriously…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 12
This stout pine tree in a field at Carlingford was snapped in the middle by the violent gale which swept parts of Sydney suburbs yesterday afternoon. The gale did tremendous damage and four lives were lost. Houses were unroofed, trees were uprooted, factories were blown down, and vehicles overturned. A pictorial record of some of the damage caused by the storm—the worst for ten years in the history of Sydney—appears on the illustrations page…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Four Fatalities in Fiercer Storm. Path of Destruction. Wreckage and Chaos. Scores of Casualties as Suburbs are Swept. Appalling Gale Damage
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 11
The most disastrous storm in Sydney's recent history occurred yesterday afternoon, causing the death of four persons, injuring scores of others, wrecking houses and factories and resulting in many thousands of pounds worth of damage, that in Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lives Lost in State's Most Disastrous Storm Photonews
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 5
COLIN CHISHOLM, 22, wool sorter, was killed when lightning struck Callacher's wool store, Botany, and the roof collapsed during yesterday's terrific storm. THE SCENE OF DEVASTATION in Boralee Park, Mascot, where Arthur Milton Green, aged 10, of Bay Street, was killed when the grandstand (left) was reduced to ruins. Six other children in the stand were…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 7
THE top floor of St. Gabriel's School for Deaf Boys, Castle Hill, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The fire occurred during the height of the storm at 3.30 p.m.,…
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