Town Radios Help Appeal Many Lose Homes in Cyclone
BRISBANE, Fri. -- Cooktown police yesterday radioed an appeal for help for the town which a 90-miles-an-hour cyclone struck yesterday…
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Houses Strack by Lightning And Trains Stopped By Violent Thunderstorms
Two violent thunderstorms hit Sydney yesterday afternoon. Lightning struck at least six times and damaged homes, power stations, and electrical installations. Train services were disrupted. The first storm struck the city between 3 and 4 p.m. Its effects…
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TOWNSVILLE, Saturday-- Heavy rain' yesterday following Thursday's cyclone, has caused serious…
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TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Heavy rain yesterday following Thursday's cyclone, has caused serious…
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TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Heavy rain yesterday following Thursday's cyclone, has caused serious…
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TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Heavy rain yesterday following Thursday's cyclone, has caused serious…
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TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Heavy rain yesterday following Thursday's cyclone, has caused serious…
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CAIRNS, Saturday.—Dramatic first-hand accounts of how Cooktown, a township of 400 on the Cape York Peninsula, was practically wiped off the map by a cyclone on Thursday were given by the crew of the 50-ton store ship…
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BRISBANE, Sat. -- Most off Cooktown's 300 homeless may be evacuated to Cairns until their cyclone-wrecked homes are repaired…
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"LITHGOW flash" Marjorie Jackson forgot to take the moisture pads off her running shoes but won the NSW senior 100 yards title at the Sports Ground yesterday from Olympians Shirley Strickland and June Maston. The winner said after the race that she had been sick with…
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THESE TWO PICTURES of the home formerly occupied by Mrs. Armsbrust at Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, show something of the destructive force of the cyclone which almost wiped the township off the map last Thursday. (Story page 5.)…
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BRISBANE, Sun. -- To reporters and officials arriving at Cooktown today the town looked as if a bombing raid…
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THESE TWO PICTURES of the home formerly occupied by Mrs. Armsbrust at Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, show something of the destructive force of the cyclone which almost wiped the township off the map last Thursday. (Story page 5.)…
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THESE TWO PICTURES of the home formerly occupied by Mrs. Armsbrust at Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, show something of the destructive force of the cyclone which almost wiped the township off the map last Thursday. (Story page 5.)…
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THESE TWO PICTURES of the home formerly occupied by Mrs. Armsbrust at Cooktown, in Northern Queensland, show something of the destructive force of the cyclone which almost wiped the township off the map last Thursday. (Story page 5.)…
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CAIRNS,-Monday.--Pathetic stories of losses of homes and personal goods were fold today by Cooktown victims of the cyclone which devastated the town…
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CAIRNS, Monday.--Pathetic stories of losses of homes and personal goods were told today by Cooktown victims of the cyclone which devastated the town…
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CAIRNS, Monday.--Pathetic stories of Bosses of homes and personal goods were told today by Cooktown victims of the cyclone which devastated the town…
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CAIRNS, Monday.--Pathetic stories of losses of homes and personal goods were told today by Cooktown victims of the cyclone which devastated the town…
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CAIRNS, Monday.--Pathetic stories of losses of homes and personal goods were told today by Cooktown victims of the cyclone which devastated the town…
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