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

Floods & storms, 1927

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Easter Storms Nine Lives Lost in Sydney Property Damage £200,000 SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 2

Tragic accidents occurred during the storm that swept over Sydney on Monday night. Nine lives were lost, and enormous…

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Floods and Cyclones Enormous Damage in U.S.A. MONTREAL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 4

A new York message states that the gravity of the disaster caused by floods and cyclones is increasing hourly. At present it is estimated the…

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American Floods Kansas City's Plight MONTREAL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 4

A massage from Kansas City states that an epidemic of contagious discases in the latest calainity menaclrg the refugees in Arkanas, which…

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Mountain Tragedy Young Grazier Disappears Flood Claims Victim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 April 1927 · page 2

Our correspondent writes from Tallons concerning the disappearance of Harold Sparks, of Talwong station, who it is thought…

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Flood Disaster Mississippi Overflows Many Dead; 150,000 Homeless Refugees' Desperate Plight VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 April 1927 · page 2

A Memphis estimate of the dead in the flood-stricken area puts it at between 200 and 500. Refugees from the newly-inundated sections…

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U.S.A. FLOODS Effort to Save City River Bank to be Broken MONTREAL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 April 1927 · page 4

A message from Memphis states that while if is impossible to state. delinitely the number of persons known to be dead as a result of the floods,…

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Grave Danger Mississippi Floods Districts Threatened MONTREAL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 May 1927 · page 4

New Orleans and Loiuislana are fighting a losing battle against the crest of the Mississippi floods. The homes of 200,000 persons in the path…

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50 Miles a Day Mississippi Flood Progress Half a Million Homeless New Orleans

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 4

The crest of the Mississippi river flood is moving southwards at a rate of 50 miles a day leaving an increasingly large expanse of inundated…

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Mississippi Floods Crisis Expected To-day New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 May 1927 · page 4

The crisis of the Mississippi floods at New Orleans is expected on Wednesday, when engineers expect breaks in the levee at Big Bend…

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Storm at Gundagai Houses Unroofed GUNDAGAI

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 May 1927 · page 7

A terriffic storm went over Gundagai and caused considerable damage to properly. Houses in the high portion of the…

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Gale and Dust Wiatry Conditions Prevail

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 May 1927 · page 4

Following the gale which smothered Goulburn with dust yesterday morning rain commenced to fall shortly before lunch. Showers…

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Gale in the Bight Renown's Rough Passage Duchess Climbs the Bridge at Sea

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 May 1927 · page 4

Rumonrs yesterday that heavier weather was ahead were amply justified during the night, when a heavy south-westerly gale struck the…

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New Orleans Floods More Safeguards Fail Energetic Rescue Work MONTREAL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 May 1927 · page 4

A New Orleans message states that mother barrier against the floods has collapsed , marooning 500 inhabitants of Melville. The victims rushed to…

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Battle with Floods Mississippi Still Unruly New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 May 1927 · page 2

At New Or[?]eans the steamer B[?]rmingham, carrying conv[?]cts from the state prison, was trapped in the current of the swollen stream and…

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Mississippi Flood Further Serious Break New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 2

A Now 0rleans message says that a levee at McCrea, on the Atchiafalaya River, despite the desperate attempts which have been made to save it,…

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Mississippi Floods Victims Now Number 700,000 New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 May 1927 · page 2

Mr. Hooyer in a plea to the nation for an additional 2,000,000 dollars, declared that the eulmination of the floods will see onwards of 700,000…

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Flood Disasters Prevention Measures Discussed New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 June 1927 · page 2

A Chicago message states that after a three days flood conferences a committee requested President Coolidge to call out civilian engineers for…

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Wheat Harvest Estimates are Reduced Effects of Storms and Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 7

Final returns of the N.S.W. wheat harvest for the season 1926-27 have been received by the Government Statistician (Mr. T. Waites)…

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More Floods American Wheat Lands Suffer Kansas City

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 4

A fresh outbreak of floods has heavily damaged sections of the Oklahom Missouri and Arkahsas wheat reg ons, Karnsas being the heaviest hit. The…

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Published by Arrangement the Big Flood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 July 1927 · page 8

According to a compilation printed in the. Herald-Tribune (New York) "tI e net rgsult of national. Prohibition has been to increase the annual…

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