Marooned by Flood. Goulburn
After a narrow escape from drowning in a flooded creek, Joseph Sewell, 28, was marooned in a hut for two days and nights. Sewell, who works for Carlon Brothers,…
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Typhoon Loss in Tokio Worst Storm For 25 Years TOKIO
The damage caused by the typhoon in Japan, is so great that it is impossible at present to estimate the losses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Devastation in Japan. Typhoon's Fury Death-roll of 30. 90,000 Houses Flooded TOKYO, Sept. 1
Thirty people were killed by a typhoon which devastated eastern Japan at dawn yesterday. Eleven hundred houses collapsed,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Train Wrecked in Canada. Engine Crew Killed. Floods Cause Deaths. Portneuf (Quebec), Sept. 1
The engine-driver and fireman were killed last night when portion of a Canadian Pacific Railway express plunged into an open culvert, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheds Which Have Stood the Strain of Hawkesbury Floods
The shed to the left, on which the floods have been marked, is 70 years old in September, 1879, the river rose to a height of 43½ feet, and 32 people took refuge in the loft when the shed was surrounded by water 10 [?] deep. In the lower portion of the building 40 pigs were trapped,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Of Jews Is Fear ROME, Friday. Our Own Cable Service
A NEW Hood of Jewish refugees into democratic countries is expected in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Floods in Canada Our Own Cable Service
OTTAWA, Friday.--Thirteen people are known to have been drowned in heavy floods near Quebec. Five men were crushed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S.A. Floods Sweep Countryside DENVER (Colorado)
Floods which have swept down from the Rocky Mountains have inundated scores of towns. Many people are reported missing,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Colorado. Denver (Colorado), Sept. 4
Floods have swept through scores of towns and several persons are missing. Many people have been rescued from housetops A woman was drowned witch her motor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Floods Menace Czechoslovakia
PRAGUE, Sunday.--Flooded rivers are threatening to inundate vast areas of the Czechoslovakian provinces of Bohemia and Moravia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Byron Bay Floodings. Mullumbimby
The problem of avoiding the flooding of lowlying areas, at Byron Bay, caused by the silting of the mouth of Belongil Creck, was discussed at a meeting of the Byron Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →1309 Deaths In Floods TOKIO
Floods in Northern Korea have caused at least 1309 deaths, and 346 are missing. Japan Proper has been swept by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amazing Escapes in Cyclone Much Property Damaged PERTH
A woman and a child were buried beneath a brick wall when it collapsed during a severe cyclonic storm late yesterday, but they escaped injury through being knocked under a door that took the weight of most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mrs. Anastasia Elizabeth Gale
Mrs. Anastasia Elizabeth Gale, of 161 Paddington-street, Paddington, passed away recently, fortified by the rites of Mother Church. The late Mrs. Gale was…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Ten Injured in Sudden Cyclone Perth
TEN people were injured and £10,000 damage was caused by a cyclone which swept North Perth last night. Five of the injured were admitted to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With the Guns Victorian Orchardist Defies Gale To Win Major Championship
DISAPPOINTED when runner-up in two National trap-shooting championships earlier this year, Victorian orchardist sportsman, "Dubbs" (V. W. L. Fankhauser), gained his most important success last week-end when he fought against appalling conditions to an outright win in the Southern Hemisphere Double-rise championship at clay pigeons…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Floodlit Scene
THE floodlit verandahs and swimming pool of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Williams's home at Wahroonga made an attractive scene and the house was decorated with masses of…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Pamphlet Deluge Over Gordon Poll
Twenty thousand electors in Gordon are being deluged with pamphlets on "technical irregularities." The by-election, necessary because the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm When Race Favorite Failed
PUNTERS were agha when the hot favorite, John McNab, was defeated by Winning Post at Kembla Grange yesterday, and there was a mild demonstration when the horses returned to scale. There were only five…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storm Likely To-day. Cool Change Expected
Stormy weather is sweeping across New South Wales, and is expected to reach Sydney this afternoon. It is likely to be short-lived but violent, with…
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