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

Floods & storms, 1917

77 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 4

Fierce Storm. Telephone Wires Struck

Young Witness · Tuesday 9 October 1917 · page 1

The storm which startled the residents of Thuddungra and Marengo last Thursday night, was one of the worst on record Terrific peals of…

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Albury Flooded. Boats in Streets. (Country Press Telegram)

Young Witness · Tuesday 9 October 1917 · page 2

ALBURY, Tuesday—Many boats are plying for hire in the streets of Albury, conveying people about town. The flood waters will reach Echuca in…

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Floods in China

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 October 1917 · page 4

Reuter's Shanghai correspondent reports enormous floods in North China. A densely populated area of 20,000 square miles has become an immense deep lake. There is a…

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Fierce Storm. Telephone Wires Struck

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 2

The storm which startled the residents of Thuddungra and Marengo, on Thursday night of last week, says the 'Young Witness,' was one of the worst…

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Thunderstorms

Young Witness · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 5

The weather has been hot and sultry all the week. Thundery conditions have prevailed since noon on Wednesday. The records posted…

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Heavy Rain. Electric Lights Fail

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 1

Heavy, rain, accompanied by wind from the weat, passed over the town on Saturday night. For hours some of the electric lights were off and the…

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Thunderstorm Causes Fire

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 1

HAY, Tuesday.—A peculiar fire believed to have been caused by lightining during a thunderstorm, took place on the Deniliquin road on…

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Murrumbidgee in Flood

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 4

HAY, Tuesday.—The flood in the Murrumbidgee reached the highest point at Hay for years—22ft 9in—and is still rising. Below Hay the river…

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Murray Floods. Highest Ever Known. (Country Press Telegram). SYDNEY

Young Witness · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 2

The Murray River floods reached the highest point over known yesterday. The waters are still rising at Albury at a late hour last night. The…

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The Murray Floods. Record Heights

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 2

Shortly, after midnight the flood reached its highest point at Albury, being 16 feet 9 inches above summer level, the highest on record. The whole area of southern Albury is now…

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Murray River Floods. Train Service at Cobram Suspended. Stream Ten Miles Wide. Berrigan

Young Witness · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 5

A fall of about inch was recon[?] ed in the Murray River at Cobram this morning. Advices from Albury show a causing of 14ft l0in, while at…

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A Deluge

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 30 October 1917 · page 2

A Moreton Bay Fig, gross and greedy feeder as it is, making its luxuriant growth at the expense of the vegetation around it, has found a…

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Flood Fatalities Several People Drowned

Young Witness · Tuesday 13 November 1917 · page 1

The coastal districts of N.S.W., after months of drought, have been flooded. Torrential rains fell last week, which were general both in…

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Rain and Thunderstorms

Young Witness · Tuesday 13 November 1917 · page 2

A violent thunderstorm broke over Young at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Only 22 points were registeerd at the post office, but in close proximatly to the…

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Heavy Storms. Damage to District Crops

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 December 1917 · page 2

One of the most disastrous storms on record passed over the town and district between 9 and 10 o'clock on Friday night. Gathering up from…

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Tropical Downpour. Deluge at Young

Young Witness · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 3

Exceptionally heavy rain fell at Young on Wednesday morning, totalling 232 points. Most of the rain fell between 8.30 and 9 a.m., when so…

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Flooded Creeks

Young Witness · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 2

On Wednesday morning, the Burrangong Creek rose almost to a banker, and the stream carried kerosene tins, limbs or trees, etc., with it at…

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