City Roofs Lifted, Plane Wrecked in Wild Gale Wind Hits At 78 m.p.h
A HURRICANE blast of wind, reaching 78 m.p.h., which struck Sydney shortly before 2 p.m. this afternoon, broke an aeroplane in half at Mascot,…
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Two Storms Hit Sydney
After two days of heat-wave conditions, windstorms twice yesterday battered Sydney and many country areas…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A freak cyclone late yesteday afternoon damaged more than half the houses…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A freak cyclone late yesterday afternoon damaged more than half the houses…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A freak cyclone late yesteday afternoon damaged more than half the houses…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A freak cyclone late yesteday afternoon damaged more than half the houses…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A freak cyclone late yesteday afternoon damaged more than half the houses…
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GUYRA, Thursday.— A cyclone which hit Black Mountain, six miles from Guyra, late this afternoon…
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GUYRA, Friday.--Only a few houses were left intact when a 70-mile-an-hour gale nearly flattened the tiny farming township of Black Mountain, eight, miles…
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The windstorm which raced across Sydney yesterday afternoon left a trail of shattered roofs and fences and broken, chimneys. Gusts in the afternoon…
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Gale force winds reaching a speed of 70 miles an hour late yesterday almost destroyed the small township of Black Mountain, eight miles south of Guyra…
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Suburban homes suffered severe damage in a freak windstorm which battered Sydney for 15 minutes yesterday afternoon. Dulwich Hill was in the path of the storm, and the iron roofing which covered the back verandah of this home in The Boulevarde was torn off in the gale (right). Mrs. F. Dalziel (left) is shown gathering the brick from a chimney of a neighbour's home…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. Two ships, with smashed [?]niture and broken crock[?]ty, berthed in Melbourne…
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MELBOURNE, Sat.--A gale which battered the British motorship Glenstrae between Adelaide…
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Gale-force westerlies which yesterday reached a maximum of 60 miles an hour:-- Overturned a lighter in the Harbor…
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Crohanihurst Observatory, Queensland, November 2.—There have been two Southern sunspot outbreaks [?] cently, and both of them have give…
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HAMBURG. — (“Jewish News” Special Cable Service). Fritz Hippier, former S.S. Stormtrooper and Director of Nazi films Company,…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday. AN 80 mph gale in A laide this afternoon tore part of the roof from…
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The Weather Bureau, which last night issued a storm warning to shipping in the south-west Tasman Sea, said that strong westerly winds would reach Sydney today. A strong south-westerly…
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A freak wind, lasting a few seconds, tore down an electric-light wire, which electrocuted a boy and…
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