Chinese Steamer Arrested After Collision
BRISBANE, Friday.—The 815-ton Chinese steamer Tung Hwa was arrested in Gladstone Harbour early this morning. The warrant…
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More Explosions Feared Wrecked Port Still Ablaze Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, April 18.—All rescue workers have again been ordered out of the docks area of Texas City because of the danger of fresh explosions in the oil…
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LONDON. Thursday.--The British steamer San Tampa has broken up off the Welsh coast and all of her crew of…
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TORNADO, Wrecked city of Woodward, Oklahoma, U.S.A., after a tornado had swept through it on the night of April 9. Twelve of the city's 7000 inhabitants were killed. EXPLOSION. Priest administering last rites in a temporary…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- With a crew of 45 trapped aboard, the British merchantman Samtampa (7000 tons) broke up off Porthcawl (Wales) yesterday…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- With a crew of 45 trapped aboard, the British merchantman Samtampa (7000 tons) broke up off Porthcawl (Wales) yesterday…
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LONDON, Thursday.-- With a crew of 38 trapped aboard, the British merchantman Samtampa (7000 tons) is breaking up off Porthcawl (Wales)…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- With a crew of 45 trapped aboard, the British merchantman Samtampa (7000 tons) broke up off Porthcawl (Wales) yesterday…
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LONDON, Thursday. -- With a crew of 45 trapped, aboard, the British merchantman Samtampa (7000 tons) broke up off Porthcawl (Wales) yesterday…
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LONDON, Friday.--"l doubt if we can make it, but we'll try,'--will be the epitaph of 'eight Mumbles lifeboatmen. THEY sacrificed their lives in a vain…
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LONDON, April 24.An 80-mile-anhour storm which lashed England yesterday drove ashore a British tanker in the Bristol Channel. Her crew of 41 are…
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FIFTY PERSONS were drowned when this British-operated Liberty ship, Samtampa, was driven ashore and wrecked in an 80 m.p.h. gale at Porthcawl, Wales. Picture shows the vessel just after it broke in two…
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FIFTY PERSONS were drowned when this British-operated Liberty ship, Samtampa, was driven ashore and wrecked in an 80 m.p.h. gale at Porthcawl, Wales. Picture shows the vessel just after it broke in two…
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FIFTY PERSONS were drowned when this British -operated Liberty ship, Samtampa, was driven ashore and wrecked in an 80 m.p.h. gale at Porthcawl, Wales. Picture shows the vessel just after it broke in two…
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Dramatic pictures of train and ship wrecks are below. Top picture shows Illinois-Miami express crash, illustrating the overturned carriages which followed a derailment of the engine. Two…
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An unusual sea mammal has been washed ashore at Old Bar entrance to the Manning River, near Taree…
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If any lesson can be drawn from Saturday's voting it is surely that the people of New South Wales gave their, verdict against neither of the main opposing parties, but against extremism in…
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An aerial view of the wreckage of the picnic train which left the rails and telescoped on top of the overturned locomotive at Camp Mountain, 12 miles from Brisbane, yesterday. In the right foreground the locomotive can be seen lying on its side with the leading carriage telescoped beyond it. LEFT: Rescuers cutting their' way into one of the wrecked and telescoped carriages. RIGHT: Doctors, nurses, ambulance officers, and police waiting to attend the injured. A priest can be seen in the background beyond the nurse on the left. (Other pictures on page 3.)…
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Father D. Cremin, of Ashgrove, administered last rites to the dying during the rescue work. Once, crawling through the debris, he could reach only a…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.--When a woman refused to leave a roadside tavern in which she was having a drink yesterday, her husband demolished the building. The man, John Zieck, 38, of…
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