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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 109

Ship Aground: £25,000 Fishing Fleet Wrecked by Coastal Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

An 11,000 ton tourist lister ran aground, a £25,000 fishing fleet was wrecked, and widespread damage was caused in Sydney today by a cyclone which is now centred off the north coast of New South Wales…

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Dams to Flood Indian State Entire 453 square miles of Bilaspur, en Indian state, will be wiped off the map by a giant twin-dam project

The World's News · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 15

STATES—geographical patches on the quilt of the earth—often have been destroyed by war and treaty. India's tiny Bilaspur will lose its…

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Warning of floods

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 4

The Weather Bureau last night issued a warning of substantial rises on the upper…

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Big Downpour Deluges City: Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

Almost continuous heavy rain, driven by powerful gusts of wind, deluged Sydney last night and this morning…

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Heavy Rainfall Brings Danger of Flood, But Most Sport to Go on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

Almost continuous Heavy rain, driven fay powerful gusts of wind, deluged Sydney last night and this morning. However, the race meeting at Rosehill has not been…

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Gale, rain sweep city; 2 killed (Widespread Damage)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 3

A 65 m.p.h. easterly gale and heavy rain swept Sydney last night. Two men were killed in road accidents…

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75 Fishing Launches Wrecked; Ketch Missing 70 m.p.h. Gales Lash N.S.W. Coast; Heavy Losses

Truth · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 2

A 70-miles-an-hour cyclone, with fierce rain squalls, which lashed the New South Wales' coast from early yesterday morning, was still sweeping far northern centres last night, adding to the…

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Water Enters Suburban Shops Rain Lashes Coast of N.S.W. and Queensland Danger Of Floods Again On Two Rivers

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 1

Heavy rain fell all along the New South Wales coast and tablelands yesterday and renewed the flood danger to Lachlan and…

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Warning of floods on Nepean

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 1

Heavy rain in eastern New South Wales has resulted in the issue of flood…

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Storm Batters Many Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 3

The storm which battered Sydney on Saturday night and yesterday morning was particularly severe in waterfront suburbs. But widespread damage…

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Cash Relief for Storm Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 3

Social Service Department officers have authority to make cash grants to people in distress because of storm damage…

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Scores of Homes Damaged Roofing Torn Off In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 5

Scores of dwellings throughout the metropolitan area have suffered heavily from storm damage since Saturday…

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Scores of Homes Damaged Roofing Torn Off In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 5

Scores of dwellings throughout the metropolitan area have suffered heavily from storm damage since Saturday…

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Scores of Homes Damaged Roofing Torn Off In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 2

Scores of dwellings throughout the metropolitan area have suffered heavily from storm damage since Saturday…

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Scores of Homes Damaged Roofing Torn Off In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 2

Scores of dwellings throughout the metropolitan area have suffered heavily from storm damage since Saturday…

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Scores of Homes Damaged Roofing Torn Off In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 5

Scores of dwellings throughout the metropolitan area have suffered heavily from storm damage since Saturday…

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Mob Storm Ed Gaol and Lynched 11 When Mafia Invaded New Orleans

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 11

THE departure of a steamer from New Orleans on an October evening in 1890 left David Hennessey, youngest police chief in the United States, in high elation. T' ween decks with…

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Floods Cut Many Roads: Heavy South Coast Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 3

Heavy rain and gale force winds along the South Coast caused widespread flooding and other damage yesterday. Some of the effects…

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60 Saved From Night Flooding Big damage in suburbs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Rescuers worked in pitch darkness early yesterday to save 30 adults and 30 children from the flooded George's River…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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