Gale Wrecks Ship: Four Towns Flooded 7 of Crew Safe After 2-Hour Struggle in Sea
The small steamer Coweambah (76 tons) was wrecked today off South West Rocks, North Coast. Seven of the crew of eight are safe…
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Man Found Dead Beside Bicycle During Storm
ROBERT PERT (41), electrician, Anderson St., Ryde, was found dead during the height of the storm this morning…
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Flood warnings have been issued to all residents on the North Coast from the Bellinger River…
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A 1500-ton coastal freighter sank in a gale off South West Rocks, 25 miles from Kempsey, at 10.30 a.m. today. Six members of the crew Have…
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Flood warnings have been issued on the North Coast as a sequel to heavy and continuous rain extending from the Tweed to the Bellinger Rivers. Bad flying weather yesterday closed down all the…
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Torrential rain fell in Sydney last night and early this morning. Gutters ran bankers and floodings…
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PERTH, Tuesday.--Today Perth is experiencing its fourth successive day of deluging rains, which have spread inland over…
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Weather Notes.--SE to east gates have continued over eastern New South Wales and moderate to heavy rain has fallen generally along the coast…
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Sydney's storm death roll has been increased to three by the accidental deaths during last night's blinding rain of two more men…
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During teeming rain in the early hours of yesterday morning a thief smashed the window of H. Richardson's jewellery shop in Smith Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MOTHER, 4 Children Drowned at Casino Lismore Cut Off By Floods, Planes Will Drop Supplies
A mother and her four children were drowned near Casino yesterday when a boat capsized as they were being rowed from their flooded home. From Murwillumbah (20 inches of rain since Thursday) and Lismore (16…
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Disastrous floods are sweeping the north coast of New South Wales after record June rains. A man was swept to death down a flooded river, and a small vessel was wrecked off the coast, one member of her crew of seven being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lismore in Critical Plight Public Services Disrupted By Flood Planes Will Try to Drop Food, Blankets
IN an urgent bid to relieve flood distress at Lismore, which is under water, R.A.A.F. planes will attempt to drop food and 700 pairs of blankets on high around in the district…
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Torrential downpours on the North Coast after a week of heavy rain have caused extensive flooding…
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Records floods on the Tweed, Clarence, and Richmond rivers have caused widespread damage in several towns…
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Extensive damage to towns and farmlands along the North Coast has been caused by widespread flooding following record rains over the week-end and yesterday. It was still raining heavily last night in many parts of the State…
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Two men were killed last night in city streets during heavy rain. Richard William Gray, 56, of Hargrave Street. Paddington was kill[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm Ruin At Collaroy
ABOVE: Ruins of the home of Mr. W. S. Friend, Collaroy Beach. The house, after being undermined by heavy seas for…
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With barely enough coal for three days, the Australian Gas Light Co. cannot get supplies from Newcastle, because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stoker Burned, Ship In Storm
For six hours last night heavy seas prevented a ship, on which a fireman had been severely burned, from entering the Heads…
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