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

Floods & storms, 1913

42 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 3

The Gale. London, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 4

The Italian steamer Trente has been towed into Southampton in a crippled condition. Just as was the case with the Narrung, she was swept by a huge wave in the Bay of Biscay. Five…

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Storms in America. New York, Jan. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 5

Terrific storms are raging on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The railways cannot be worked owing to snow-slides in the middle west. Firemen attending fires in many cities…

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[Reuter's.] Heavy Weather. Gales, Hurricanes, and Wrecks. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1913 · page 4

A violent gale with heavy snow, has occurred in the North of England. The telegraph and railway lines are interrupted. The snow drifts are many feet deep. A blizzard which has visit…

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Worst for Years. Weather in England.- Snowstorms, Gales, and Floods. Steamers on Land. a Shifting Bog. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 2

Great Britain is still suffering from a terrible weather visitation. Blizzards of rain and hail, blinding snowstorms, and terrific gales swept over…

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The Gale. Loss of Life. Lisbon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 2

The steamer Veronese is a total loss. Tremendous seas washed the decks, making it impossible to use the rocket lines for hours. The breeches buoy arrived on board at seven o'clock…

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Storm at Bathurst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 2

Bathurst.—Reports from around the district show that the violent storm which occurred on Tuesday night did damage in places. Telegraph graph poles and fences were blown down, and…

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A Heavy Storm

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 2

A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by strong wind and dust, and rain, was the outcome of a very disagreeable hot day on Tuesday…

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Storm at Cootamundra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

Cootamundra, Monday.—A fierce hail-storm, the severest which had over been experienced in Cootamundra passed over the town at 6 o'clock this evening. The storm could be heard…

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Storm at Narrandera

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 4

Narrandera, Saturday.—A heavy thunder-storm, accompanied by wind, rain, hail, and vivid lightning, passed over the town yesterday evening. No loss than 60 points of rain fell…

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Storms at Tumut and Adelong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 4

Tumut, Tuesday.—A burricane swept over the town on Monday evening. Furious squalls, accompanied by driving rain and heavy hail, continued without intermission for some time…

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The Storm. Heavy Damage to Property

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 2

Further details of the damage caused by Saturday's cyclonic storms continue to come to hand in Sydney. These show that hundreds of houses were…

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Violent Storm. in Sydney. Loss of Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 4

The downpour in Sydney on Saturday night broke all local meteorological records. It was a cyclonio storm of the severest nature, and Sydney was in the centre of it all…

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Almost a Blizzard at Canberra Light Horse Camp Flooded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 4

Federal Capital Camp, Sunday.—Light Horsemen are almost unanimous in the opinion that the name Antarctica, which is one of the large number of suggested names for the…

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Sydney Storm Swept

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 2

Throughout Saturday rain fell incessantly, and in the city between the hours of [?], on Saturday and 9 a.m. on Sunday no less than 652 points…

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Fire and Flood. Intense Suffering. Columbus (Ohio), March 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1913 · page 4

Indianapolis reports that 150 persons were drowned there. Dayton, March 26. A huge explosion has wrecked an additional…

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Towns Flooded. Distressing Scenes. Dayton, March 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1913 · page 2

A renewal of the blizzard is adding to the horrors of the disaster caused by flood and fire. The fearful fire which has destroyed a large section of Dayton is still raging, and…

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Marooned Flood Victims

The Yass Courier · Monday 31 March 1913 · page 2

Thousands of people are still marooned on the tops of the roofs of houses, and all are making the most pitiable appeals to be saved…

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Floods in America. Dayton, March 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1913 · page 4

The situation is now normal after the floods. Mr. Orville Wright, the well-known airman and the members of his family, were cut off by the floods. They fled to higher ground,…

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The Latest. the Storm. Hawkesbury in Flood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 2

The French mail steamer Ville de La Ciota[?] went aground on the Sow and Pigs shoal in Sydney Harbour, and remained fast for an hour and a half, when she was successfully…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. Great Storm in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 4

Torrential rain fell in Sydney throughout the night, and shows no sign of abating. There is a heavy gale, accompanied by rough seas, on the coast. During one period the rain fell in…

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