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

Floods & storms, 1909

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A Ride Through the Flood

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 3

I had news about the disaster about two hours after it occurred, and set out for the scene. My way lay through flood water which came well up to the saddle…

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City Washed Out. Scenes in Flood Disaster

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 3

The Hyderabad correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote on September 29: The magnitude of the calamity which visited Hyderabad, the Nizam's capital…

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A Ride Through the Flood

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1909 · page 3

I had news about the Jisaster about two hours after it occurred, and set out for the scene. My way lay through flood water which came well up to the saddle…

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City Washed Out. Scenes in Flood Disaster

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 January 1909 · page 3

The Hyderabad correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote on September 29: The magnitude of the calamity which visited Hyderabad, the Nizam's capital,…

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Sunday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 2

The brunt of Sunday's storm seems to have been borne by the Gundary, Tarago, Norwood and Kingsdale districts. At Gundary great damage has been done. Miles of fencing have…

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Bishop Barlow's Trying Experience. Sunday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 4

His Lordship Bishop Barlow had an exciting experience on Sunday. He was at Windellama for confirmation; and soon after starting from there on the road via…

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Fine Fall of Rain. Severe Dust Storm

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 2

The muggy weather of Sunday morning culminated in a heavy thunderstorm which broke ever the town early in the afternoon, Early in the…

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German Socialists. Attempt to Storm a Palace. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1909 · page 2

The Standard's Dresden correspondent states that 5000 socialists after meeting and demanding universal suffrage attempted to storm the King's Palace at Dresden. After…

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The Bishop of Goulburn. Fights the Storm

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

BISHOP BARLOW had a sensational experience in Sunday’s storm, says a telegram to the DAILY TELEGRAPH from Goulburn. He was proceeding (accompanied by the Rev. G…

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The Recent Storms. Damage at Norwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 4

Reports are coming in of the damage done in the Norwood district on Sunday and Monday by the storms and flood water. It is estimated that in part of the…

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A Terrific Storm. Wind, Dust, Hail, and Rain. (From Murrumburrah Signal.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon a furious dust storm struck the town at 3 o’clock. A strong e[?] gale blew blinding clouds of fine dust across the town, and [?] its way into the houses, made…

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Great Rain in Yass District. the River Flooded

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 February 1909 · page 3

Several days last week were close and oppressive (unusually so for Yass), showing prospects of a change in the weather. On Friday evening a strong…

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Central Europe Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 1

Extraordinary floods have occurred in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, and Tyrol, owing to sudden melting of the snows. Whole towns are under water. Railways in…

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European Floods. London, Feb. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 3

The icefloes at Dresden are melting, and the danger is pant. Some of the western streams are abating…

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Floods in Germany. London, Feb. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1909 · page 4

Fifty thousand acres of country in the valleys of the Elbe and the Havel, North Germany, are still inundated, and eighty towns and villages are under water…

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Yass Partly Flooded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1909 · page 2

Yass, Wednesday.—A portion of Yass was flooded this afternoon. A storm passed over the town shortly after 2 o'clock. Heavy rain set in, and one inch 16 points fell in…

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Cyclone at Monteagle

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 2

THE appearance in town on Monday at about four o’clock inspired the opinion that a heavy storm was passing over Monteagle, and this opinion has been confirmed by the news that residents of…

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Cyclone at Monteagle. Roman Catholic Church Destroyed

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 2

On Monday afternoon last, about 4 p.m., the little village of Monteagle was visited by a terrific cyclone, which swept everything before it. The first intimation which the…

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The Late Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1909 · page 2

Cooma, Wednesday.—Heavy thunderstorms occurred yesterday in the Cooma district, at Matong, and at Jimenbuen. Several miles of rabbit-proof fencing wore washed away and…

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Storm at Currawang

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1909 · page 2

Our correspondent writes:—The weather has after much threatening, so far as this locality was concerned, taken a decided change, Leginning with a cyclonic storm on We Wednesday, 17th, when…

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