Engine-room Quickly Flooded
The Sydney Star is lying, in several feet of water about 200 yards offshore at the eastern end of Rose Bay. The engine-room is flooded, and the ship…
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Drama As Ships Collide Men Work in Flooded Engine Room Gallant Efforts To Stem Flow Of Water Toiled in Darkness
While water poured into the engine-room of the badly holed motorship, Sydney Star, as she made for the beach at Rose Bay last night, a handful of engineers and seamen worked heroically in pitch darkness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →450 Dead; 2000 Hurt In U.S. Hurricane, Floods New York
THE death-roll in the hurricane and attendant floods which ravaged the eastern coast of the United States has reached 450 More than 2000 people have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Death Roll in Fierce U.S. Storms New York
NEW storms struck New England and Long Island yesterday, paralysing work and preventing the search for the dead, which now number 600. THE Red Cross estimates that relief [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Millinery Madness...Hearts And Heads Taken By Storm New York, August 20, 1938
"Hats so small they scarcely cover a curl" was one of the descriptions given to the tiny, doll hats that have taken the hearts and hearts of fair femininity by storm. Nothing is newer, smarter, or more amusing and, although it sounds incredible, they really…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hundreds Dead After U.S. STORM Roll of Killed Like a Page Torn From The Social Register Ocean Wipes Holiday Town Off the Map Whole Families Drowned And Famous And Wealthy Citizens Of U.S.A. Missing New York
TO-NIGHT THE COASTGUARD CUTTER, CHELAN, REACHED WATCH HILL, A CENTURY OLD SUMMER RESORT AT THE TIP OF RHODE ISLAND, AND FOUND 200 OR…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crowds Storm Mayor's Wedding
THE Mayor of Balmain married the Mayoress on Saturday night, according to schedule. Among the unexpected guests were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mobs Loot Storm Ruins New York
LARGE crowds of looters are endeavoring to pillage wealthy homes destroyed by last week's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Dust Storms. Sun Obscured in South-west. Wentworth Enveloped
Clouds of dust covered the southwestern portion of New South Wales yesterday, and were carried by strong north-westerly winds even as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →13,000 Families Lose Homes in Great Storm
NEW YORK, Monday.--The Red Cross is raising £125,000 for the immediate needs of the 13,000 families left destitute by last Thursday's hurricane on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooded After Collision
ENGINE-ROOM of the freighter Sydney Star which was totally under water until docked at Cockatoo Island yesterday. The portside hull of the Sydney Star was ripped after she came into collision with the freighter Macumba off…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale Destroys Uganda Convent
Namilyango (Uganda. East Africa).—A tropical gale, sweeping with sudden, terrific force through Namilyango, Uganda, completely destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Sharp Storm Over Sydney
A thunderstorm burst over the city shortly after 4 p.m. to-day, and shoppers, clad only in light clothes, had to take shelter…
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FINE weather is likely in the city early to-day, but beware of thunderstorms later…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Strike 'Nothing'
"IT'S nothing -- it happens every day," said a man after he had been struck by lightning at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain in Dry Areas Likely. Storms Along Coast. ONLY 8 Points in Sydney
The Acting State Meteorologist Mr. Newman, said last night that the pressure distribution during the last few days had become increasingly favourable to the development of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storms' Path of Death Freak Winds Kill 28 New York
TWENTY - EIGHT persons were killed and more than 300 were injured when two tornadoes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meet Here-- Gibson (Mrs. Rebecca Flood)
in her early twenties. She is adopted daughter of Sarah and Spencer Gibson, of Salletts, California, where they own a large…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Wild Storm in Kerry Bay Hoots and Howls at Hurdle Reversal Stipes Found Why Leek's Lepper Failed at Moonee Valley FLEMINGTON
ONE of the most sustained demonstrations Melbourne has witnessed for many a long time occurred after former Sydney horse KERRY BAY scored an easy victory in this afternoon's October Hurdles. NO sooner had jockey J. Regan dismounted from Kerry Bay than he and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cabinet Resignation Presages Storm Widely Resent Czech Betrayal LONDON, Sunday. Our Own Cable Service
"I profoundly distrust the foreign policy the Government is pursuing and seems likely to pursue.... "HONOR and loyalty demand…
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