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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 61

Havoc in Storm Town Badly Hit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 1

A storm which hit Scone yesterday afternoon unroofed a church and other buildings and smashed…

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Fierce Storms Lash Country Towns Damage Estimated At £110,000 Wind Blows Church Down

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at £110,000 was caused when two storms raged through the Moree and Scone districts yesterday afternoon…

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Fierce Storms Lash Country Towns Damage Estimated At £110,000 Wind Blows Roofs Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at £110,000 was caused when two storms raged through the Moree and Scone districts yesterday afternoon…

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Fierce Storms Lash Country Towns Damage Is Estimated At £110,000 Wind Blows Roofs Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at £110,000 was caused when two storms raged through the Moree and Scone districts yesterday afternoon…

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Fierce Storms Lash Country Towns Damage Is Estimated At £110,000 Wind Blows Roofs Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at £110,000 was caused when two storms raged through the Moree and Scone districts yesterday afternoon…

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Fierce Storms Lash Country Towns Damage Is Estimated At £110,000 Wind Blows Roofs Away

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

DAMAGE estimated at £110,000 was caused when two storms raged through the Moree and Scone districts yesterday afternoon…

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Moree lashed by fierce storm 70 mph wind wrecks houses; heavy damage

The Sun · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 2

Moree, in the north-west, was battered by a storm late yesterday afternoon, and a 70-mile-an-hour wind caused damage to almost every house…

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250 Leave Homes Hit By Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 5

More than 250 people in three northern towns are living in neighbors' homes…

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Town Calls for Aid Moree Storm Havoc

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 3

All available labour in Moree yesterday was used to patch the roofs of homes damaged in the hurricane…

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Storm Hits North N.s.w.--£120,000 Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 3

WRECKAGE of the home of Mr. H. R. Kennedy, boot-maker, of Scone, after a severe thunderstorm hit Scone on Thursday afternoon. Strong winds lifted Kennedy's house from its foundations and turned it…

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300 dead in Brazil floods

The Sun · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 3

RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday.--More than 300 are dead, hundreds missing, and thousands homeless in the wake of…

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Ships Call for Help in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 December 1948 · page 7

When yesterday's gale hit Sydney Harbor, eight overseas cargo ships sent out…

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51 Harbor Rescues in Gale, Ships Seek Aid

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 December 1948 · page 1

When a 64-mile-an-hour gale hit Sydney yesterday -- Water police rescued 51 people from capsized small craft in the Harbor…

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Blackouts, wide storm damage: ships cut adrift

The Sun · Sunday 19 December 1948 · page 2

A CYCLONIC storm which struck Sydney late yesterday afternoon cut ships adrift on the Harbor, damaged partly built houses and caused several black-outs. The storm followed one of the hottest days this…

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£100,000 Storm Damage Will Take Year to Repair

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 December 1948 · page 12

Moree police and authorities estimate that it will take at least a year to repair the damage caused by last Thursday's storm. More than 200 people have formed volunteer…

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Brazilian Floods Kill 600

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 December 1948 · page 10

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sat. -- More than 600 people have been drowned in floods in…

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Brazil Flood Drowns 500

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 December 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (A.A.P.).—Nearly 500 persons are reported "drowned and several hundreds are…

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Inquiries Flooding In After House Of Horror Arrests

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 10

DUSSELDORF, Tuesday.-- Shocked relatives are flocking fo Dusseldort police station fo make frantic inquiries about missing husbands, wives, sons and daughters, following the arrest last week of three men in a modern house of horror…

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Death in Wake of Floods, Snow 700 Perish In Brazil, 28 Die In U.S.A.

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Appalling loss of life has been caused by torrential floods in Brazil and a bitter snowstorm in New York and the eastern section of…

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Death in Wake of Floods Snow Oo Perish In Brazil, 28 Die In U.S.A.

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 14

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Appalling loss of life has been caused by torrential floods in Brazil and or bitter snowstorms in New York and the eastern section off…

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