Lightning Strikes Three City Trams Damage In Big Storm
THREE trams were damaged in Sydney suburbs this morning when struck by lightning during a violent electrical storm which burst over the city shortly…
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Lightning Strikes Three City Trams Damage In Big Storm
THREE trams were damaged in Sydney suburbs this morning when struck by lightning during a violent electrical storm which burst over the city shortly…
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LONDON.—The announcement that Japan is to supply £16 million worth of cotton textiles to sterling markets as…
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During a violent thunderstorm in the city yesterday, lightning struck three trams, started three minor fires, and cut through the historical 100-years-old flagpole at Victoria Barracks…
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HOLLYWOOD, Sat.--British novelist James Hilton predicts that some day libraries will…
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GAS: Michael Palmer, 8, of William Street, Double Bay, holding a gas-mask he used to help plug a leak in a refrigeration unit in a block of flats at Double Bay during a heavy storm last night. Ammonia gas…
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A young couple and their two children were uninjured when the front portion of their home in Grand Parade,…
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The awning of this shop in Grand Parade, Brighton-le-sands, was torn from its fixtures by a fierce gust of wind late yesterday. Portion of the roof was lifted and falling iron and bricks smashed the plate-glass window. Occupants of the premises, Mr. and Mrs. J. Candy and their two children, escaped injury…
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During a storm over Sydney and suburbs between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. yesterday-- Lightning struck a house and two street…
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LISBON, Monday.--Many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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LISBON, Monday -- many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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LISBON Monday -- Many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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LISBON, Monday -- Many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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LISBON, Monday -- Many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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LISBON, Monday. -- Many families are homeless as a result of torrential rains followed by flooding…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—Two rings of counterfeiters in New York and Chicago are flooding the United States with bogus 10 and 20 dollar bills, the Secret Service has announ…
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LONDON, Wednesday. -- While a gale swept the English Channel yesterday, thunderstorms caused local…
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Heavy rains were needed over the whole of the State to stave off the threat of a general…
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Sixty-miles-an-hour winds at Scone yesterday unroofed or damaged more than…
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More than £10,000 worth of damage was caused by a freak cyclonic storm which cut a narrow swathe…
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