Drama in City Floods
Moreton Bay fig trees, instead of weeping willows, frame this car, stranded when floodwaters swept over Langroad, Centennial Park, to-day. The…
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1,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 64
Youth Knocked Unconscious In Thunderstorm CESSNOCK
Ray Parsons, a Cessnock youth, staggered to a house on the outskirts of Cessnock yesterday, and told the occupants that he thought…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Deaths Caused by Storm. Gale on British Coast. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 31
Besides much material damage, five deaths were caused by a storm which began early on Saturday morning and continued during most of Sunday…
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The torrential downpour during the early hours of yesterday morning in Sydney and its environs caused heavy floodings everywhere, and as late as 10 a.m. eight hours after the terrific storm, the flood waters were still feet deep in many suburbs. In the top picture a baker is seen delivering bread in Illawarra Road. Undercliffe. The children saved the carter getting into water, about 24 inches deep, by taking possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Mars Nazi Rejoicing
BERLIN, Monday.--Heavy rain kept crowds indoors last night, and the traditional torchlight procession along the Wilhelmstrasse were rushed through in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms in North-west Moree
Heavy storms have occurred over many parts of the north-west. Several stations reported falls exceeding three inches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrangements Complete. Empire Games Swimming and Boxing Heats. Canadian Manager Causes Stir. Heavy Rain Upsets Training Plans
With the completion of the swimming, boxing, and wrestling programmes yesterday, arrangements for the Empire Games programme, beginning at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, are now complete. There was a stir at the boxing conference in the morning, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Storm Troopers Hurt. Frankfort-on-main, Jan. 31
After the torchlight parade here during last night's celebration of the anniversary of the Nazi revolution, a motor car containing two youths and two girls, all stated to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wall Collapses in Storm: Bricks Crash Into Room
BRICKS STREWN over the bedroom floor of a house in Nelson Street, Annandale, after a wall had collapsed during the height of yesterday's tropical downpour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Storm Sweeps City and Suburbs Nearly 7ins. IN 20 Hours Floods Cause Havoc Thousands Of Pounds Of Damage Full Story
THE great tropical storm which swept Sydney and suburbs early yesterday morning caused damage estimated at many thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →2 Hikers Missing in Storm Fears For Man and Young Woman Search To-day
THE disappearance of a man and a young women who left their homes to go hiking at Heathcote on Sunday is causing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Worst Traffic Hold-Up Violent Storm Dislocates All Services Many Escapes: Damage of Thousands
UNDER a continuous deluge for eight hours, Sydney business and transport was disorganised, yesterday, as they had not been for 20 years. Damage to property amounted to thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Torrential Rain Causes Extensive Flood Damage in Suburbs — Vice-regal Guests for Celebrations
Marooned in Lang Road, Centennial Park, yesterday for three hours, one motorist tried his own strength when his motor failed. Cook's River overflowed its banks at Tempe…
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Swirling floodwaters, caused by the heaviest rain in Sydney for more than 20 years, have inundated many suburban thoroughfares. A P.M.G. van churning up a muddy bow-wave as it passed through Undercliffe yesterday, while bare-legged pedestrians wade along the submerged footpaths…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mdney Deluged by Rainstorm. Heaviest Fall for 20 Years Does £100,000 Damage. Lightning Strikes Trams. Three Persons Saved from Flood
Damage estimated at £100,000 was done by flood waters yesterday following the heaviest rain which had fallen in Sydney for more than 20 years. After a thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rivers Rising at Alarming Rate Northern Trains Held Up By Floods GRAFTON
Torrential rains on the North Coast have caused serious flooding. The rivers are rising at an alarming rate. The Sydney to Brisbane express and two divisions of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane Flooded Brisbane
Nearly 5in. of rain has fallen in Brisbane during the last 24 hours--the greatest downpour for seven years. At one stage it was raining at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children Revelled in Sydney's Flood Photonews
GAPINC HOLE left after flood waters had washed away the roadway and bared the roots of a pine tree in Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands. SCHOOL children crammed full their last day of vacation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deluge in Brisbane Brisbane
The heaviest rainfall for seven years occurred during the past 24 hours, when nearly five Inches were recorded. Low-lying areas in city…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Rivers in Flood Trains Held-up in North Bridges Swept Away; Roads Blocked Heavy Rain
HEAVY rain on the North Coast since the week-end has caused rivers In some areas to rise rapidly for the second time in a few weeks…
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