Severe Damage Ca Used Lightning During Storm Is Blamed
A FIERCE' fire probably started by lightning- during the height of yesterday's terrific storm which enveloped the north…
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Amazing Escapes in Storm Houses Destroyed; Electric Wires Down Vivid Stories
HOUSES were destroyed, children narrowly escaped electrocution, as overhead electric wires, carrying between 240 and 480 volts, fell to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scenes of Destruction. Crowded Casualty Ward. Vivid Stories of Storm Victims
Amazing stories of the terror and destruction caused by yesterday's storm were told last night by victims and by some who escaped injury. The nurses and staff of the Royal South Sydney Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Many Rescues. Storm in North Sea. Vessel in Peril. Bergen (Norway), Jan. 25
The Norwegian ship Venus (5407 tons) was going home from Newcastle to Bergen, where it is assured of an enthusiastic welcome in celebration of its recent…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Four Die in Raging Sydney Storm Hundreds Are Injured; Great Damage Done Dairy Herd Disaster
A CYCLONIC storm of devastating propensities which swept down on the metropolitan area about 4 p.m. yesterday and raged in many suburbs for about 15 minutes, resulted in the deaths of three children and one adult, injuries to hundreds of others, and thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Wind Storm in Sydney Suburbs Leaves Trail of Death and Damage: Four Killed, Many Injured
A boy was killed debris near the pont where his tree fell at Booralee Park, Botany. Flying roofing iron and other debris fell in Botany-road, Botany, where many shops were unroofed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Storm Damage Estimate, £200,000 Appeals to Be Launched for Homeless Workmen Trapped In. Wrecked Factories
IT is impossible yet to estimate with any accuracy the amount of damage caused by yesterday's terrific storm. It can scarcely be less than £200,000. An appeal lo the Government for help for those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swirled Away to His Death Slab of Concrete on Head Shocking Death In Storm 'End of World'
THE cyclone swept down on Botany a from the north-east on a track a about 60 yards wide and, Judging from the main theatre or the damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desperate Plight of Storm Victims Homeless Families in the Suburbs No Money For Repairs To Ruined Cottages Government Assistance
MANY suburban families are in a desperate plight, without a roof over their heads, after yesterday's storm, in which four were killed and 31 injured. Pathetic stories were told to-day by sufferers-- a number of them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death and Ruin in Trail of Fierce Tornado Sudden Storm Cuts Wide Swath Through Suburbs Two Crushed to Death by Falling Walls Boy Drowned In Rush Of Stormwater: 108 Cows Electrocuted
A TORNADO of the worst tropical violence swept over suburbs from Ermington to Botany yesterday leaving a trail of death and ruin. It began at 4 p.m. and lasted only a few minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Floods in United States. Thousands of Refugees. Many Towns Evacuated. Damage Estimated at Millions. City Threatened by Stream of Fire. New York, Jan. 25
A strip of the United States from Pittsburgh in the north to Arkansas in the south is being devastated by floods. Fifty lives have been lost and at least 400,000 people are homeless. Property losses are estimated at millions of dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Blazing Flood Waters
The river of fire which swept through the industrial section of Cincinnati added to the terrors of a situation that was already desperate…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Martial Law in Usa. Flood AREAb Serious Looting in Towns Hunger- Crazed Citizens Explosion Of Huge Oil Tanks Liquid Fire New York
SO serious nave become the proportions of the Ohio River flood, not only in the actual flooding and the resultant distress, but in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →50 Dead In Floods Disaster Sweeps Rich Ohio Valley Cincinnati
THE Ohio River floods have reached the proportions of a national disaster. President Roosevelt has ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.t. Floods Delay Mails
DARWIN, Monday.--Because the pack-horses could not cross the flooded liver at Newcastle Waters, overland mails failed to arrive by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fifth Storm Victim
MARKING the fifth fatality of Monday's cyclonic storm, Charles Hutchinson, 46, who was battered when a roof was blown in on top of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Safe After Storm
Oslo, Tuesday.--The Norwegian ore-carrying steamer Veni, which was disabled in a storm in the North Sea, has had her rudder repaired…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Storm Victim's Body Recovered
The body of David Askers, 6. who was washed away in the Leichhardt Canal during Monday's storm, was recovered yesterday. The body was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Immediate Relief For Storm Victims
MANY suburban families who lost their homes and their possessions in Monday's fierce storm are in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Affected Seismograph Recording Distant Earthquake
Due to the violent storm in Sydney on Monday it was difficult to estimate the arrival of the first preliminary tremor of the earthquake…
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