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

Floods & storms, 1910

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Thursday's Thunderstorm at Oallen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 3

The following acount of the thunderstorm at Oallen, Timberlight, and Welcome Reef appears in the Evening News:— Three inches of rain fell in little over an…

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Bush Fires and Floods in South Australia

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 26 February 1910 · page 2

Bush fires and floods are causing serious losses in South Australia, the floods being the biggest experienced since 1889. Some damage was done to the railway line…

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Heavy Floods

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 2

Owing to heavy rain floods having occurred in the Terowie district, South Australia, there was a serious wash away on the line between O dlawirra…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. the Queensland Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1910 · page 2

Reports from Rockhampton state that all railway communication with the south and west is still interrupted. The low-lying portions of Rockhaption are under water…

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Another Rockhampton Flood

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1910 · page 2

For the second time this year Rockhampton is in flood, the recent visitation likely to prove more disastrous than the previous one…

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Soldiers Caught in a Storm.—four Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1910 · page 4

Six hundred of the Wiltshire, regiment accompanied by General Methuen; left Pietermaritzburg to surprise a militia camp, when a storm caused a spruit to rise…

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The Great Paris Floods

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1910 · page 2

The pictures to be shown by Grimes Autoscope next Tuesday April 26th. will be a treat for his patrons. Among the pictures are the Great Floods in Paris, Macbeth (a…

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Floods Sweep Away Hotel

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 27 April 1910 · page 6

Torrential rain for tho last four consecutive days has produced appalling disaster. Rivers have been swollen to an unprecedented degree,…

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Violent Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 4

A thunderstorm of exceptional violence passed over Sydney on Thursday evening, and resulted in a good deal of damage, not only in the city, but in many of the suburbs. The…

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Heavy Thunderstorm in Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 7

A terrific thunderstorm broke over the city early last night, accompanied by a heavy down[?] of rain A fireball fell in front of the Gusto[?]…

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Terrific Cyclone. Mozambique Destroyed. an Awful Visitation, Thousands of People Killed. London

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

THE city of Mozambique, an important seaport on the East Coast of Africa, has been destroyed by a cyclone of prodigious violence…

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Storms in Europe. Crowded Bridge Collapses. London, June 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 2

Twenty bridges have been destroyed in the Ahr Valley. Engineers and infantry are now constructing temporary substitutes. Several villages have been wrecked…

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Fatal Electric Storms. Fifty Deaths in Germany. London, June 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 1

Lightning in Germany has killed 50 persons in the last 21 days. The Jungfern Heide, near Berlin, was crowded with pleasure-seekers on Sunday. When a…

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Fatal Thunderstorm. London, June 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 1

Fatal thunderstorms continue in Germany. Six people have been killed, 17 seriously injured, and 190 slightly injured by lightning in the Jungfern Heide, Berlin,…

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[Reuter's.] London, Tuesday. Floods in Germany. 325 Lives Lost

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1910 · page 4

Floods burst dams and drowned 150 persons in the Ahr Valley and 175 in other districts of Germany. The victims of the floods included too at…

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A Disastrous Flood

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 7

Three hundred people were drowned by floods in the Ahr Valley, Germany. The railway laborers sacked the drink shops, 70 becoming intoxicated and…

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Floods in Europe. London, June 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 4

Consequent on the floods horrible scenes took place in the Ahr Valley, in the Rhino Province, Germany. Italian and Croatian railway labourers…

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[Reuter's.] London, Friday. Great Floods in Europe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 2

The streets and quays at Lucerne are flooded, and the electric light has failed. Serious damage has been caused at Brunnen, Weggis, Vitznau, and Flulen. The gas works at Zurich…

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Disastrous Floods. Great Loss in Switzerland. London, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 2

The floods in Switzerland on Wednesday amounted to a national disaster. A landslide blocked the St. Gothard Tunnel…

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