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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1906

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New Storm Predicted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

The Acting Government Meteorologist, Mr. H. A. Hunt, said on Monday night that the conditions now developing favour more or less general rains within a few days, with north-easterly winds. It…

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Cyclonic Storm Coming

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 4

Mr. H. A, Hunt, Acting Government Meteorologist, says that the disturbance advised on Thursday as rapidly approaching has reached the central meridian of the…

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Floods in Victoria

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 2

At midnight on Saturday a heavy shower foll in Melbourne, and at 4 a.m. rainfall began which lasted 11½ hours. The fall registered daring thin time was 265 points. Some of…

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Floods in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 2

The extent of the damage caused by the flood along the course of the Saltwater River, Victoria, is enormous. The water was higher than the flood of 1871. The greatest loss was at the City Abattoirs,…

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Floods in Victoria

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 September 1906 · page 2

THE extent of the damage along the course of the Saltwater River by Sunday's flood was enormous. The water was higher than the flood of 1871. The water by three o'clock…

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Cyclone and Waterspout. Sweep Through Bourke

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 September 1906 · page 2

Bourke, Wednesday.—About 10 minutes past 2 o'clock this morning the town was struck by a fearful cyclone, which dame up from the south-west. For about a minute the wind blew…

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Floods in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 September 1906 · page 4

Melbourne, Tuesday.—The flood waters at Echuca reached their highest level this morning, when the Campaspe waters came down. The water this evening was 4ft. deep in…

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Cyclone at Bourke

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 September 1906 · page 3

A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over Bourke early on Wednesday morning, doing considerable damage to the Salvation Army Barracks which are a total wreck. The building,…

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Floods in Victoria

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 September 1906 · page 2

The extent of the damage caused by the flood along the course of the Saltwater River, Victoria, is enormous. The water was higher than…

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Calamitous Cyclone in the China Sea. Great Loss of Life. London, Sept. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 2

A disastrous typhoon has occurred in the China Sea. At Hongkong upwards of 100 people were drowned in the two hours that the typhoon lasted, and at Canton many hundreds of lives were lost…

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Floods in Spain

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 4

One hundred residents of the San Amero and Murica districts have lost their lives by drowning in the flood waters following upon dreadful storms in South-eastern Spam…

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Hurricane and Floods. LONDON, September 28

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

A hurricane and floods caused many fatalities in the Souther States of America, besides great loss to cotton growers and others. Many…

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Heavy Rains and General Floods

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 2

The present week has been remarkable for an almost continuous state of moisture. No finer Spring rains have been experienced over the district, and the…

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Heavy Rain. the River and Creeks in Flood

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

After a few days of sultry weather, rain set in on Monday night last, and continued to fall at intervals until Tuesday afternoon when heavy rain set in…

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Flood at Gininderra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 6

Our Gininderra correspondent, "The Wizard," writes, under date October 3, as follows:—Smart showers of rain continued to fall here during the whole of last night…

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Pathetic Flood Fatality

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 2

Some detials of a dreadful drowning fatality come from the Orange district, concerning three well-known resident of Cadia, near Orange, who were drowned…

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Storm in England. Torrential Rain. Crops Damaged. Volunteer Camp Wrecked

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 October 1906 · page 4

London beheld last night (2nd August) one of the grandest exhibitions of atmospheric electrical disturbances witnessed for many a day…

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Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 October 1906 · page 4

The whole of the low country between Albury and Wodonga is under water. Dwelling houses have been swamped, and at several places stock and poultry have…

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The Murray Flood. Albury

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 9 October 1906 · page 2

The flood in the Murray has reached a great height. At 9 o'clock to-day it was 14ft above summer level, and still rising. On the low…

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Killed in a Storm

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 2

A HEAVY storm of rain and hail, with lightning occurred at Hillgrove on Monday afternoon. About an inch of rain fall. The lightning struck a flagstaff at Morgan and Co.'s…

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