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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Severe Gale. Deaths and Losses Reported. St John's (Newfoundland), Mar. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 3

A violent gale is raging round the coasts of the island. Three men were drowned crew of the steamer Portia was washed…

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Police Court. Thursday, March 28th. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 7

The business before the Court was very light on the above date. A resident who pleaded guilty to the charge of allowing a horse to stray was fined…

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The Weather. a Torrential, Storm. 140 Points in 15 Minutes

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 4

Foggy mornings, toilowed by ware and oppressive days, suggesting a [? turn to summer, have been the [? during ?he week. On Thursday [?]…

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Our Singleton Letter. a Heavy Thunderstorm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 6

The heaviest thunderstorm in Singleton for many a day took place yesterday afternoon, when rain fell almost at the rate of six inches an hour for 15 minutes. For some…

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Floods in America. Area Devastated. Pittsburg (Penn.) March 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 3

The rivers are swollen with great floods in the Alleghanies devastating large areas of country. Coalmines and factories have had to that…

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Heavy Thunderstorm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 April 1912 · page 2

A heavy thunderstorm with vivid lightning and heavy thunder, broke over Kurri at about 5 p.m. on Friday evening The rain was exceptionally heavy for about 30 minutes, and…

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The Berlin Tube Railway. Still Flooded. (By Cable). Berlin

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 2

The tube railway, which was [?] the bed of the River Spree, and [?] was recently flooded, as a result of [?] collapse of the tunnel, is still [?]…

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Disastrous Floods in Missouri. Worst Recorded. St. Louis. April 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1912 · page 5

Floods now being experienced in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky are Hie worst ever recorded. The property losses amount to millions of…

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American Floods. Widespread Damage. Durnand (Wisconsin), April 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 5

An ice bridge formed on the Chippowa River and the floods behind it destroyed a large section of the Chicago-St. Paul-Milwaukee rail-road…

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Blizzards and Flood. Cottages Isolated

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 8

From nearly every part of the country come reports of damage done by blizzards and floods (said "Lloyd's News" on January 14). Fierce…

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Police Court. Thursday, April 4th. (Before Mr C.H. Gale, P.M.). Alleged Assault

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 5

William Andrews was charged, on summous, with unlawfully assaulting Francis john Sattler, at Singleton, on the 27th of March. After hearing the evidence…

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Blizzards and Flood. Cottages Isolated

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 6

From nearly every part of the country come reports of damage done by blizzards and floods (said "Lloyd's News" on January 14). Fierce…

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Floods in America. This Plight of Cairo. Cairo (Illinois). April 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 5

The city is surrounded by water, and is without trans and street cars. The Mississippi tore a large rent in the protecting embankment, and 500 men, who…

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Disastrous Floods in Missouri. Worst Recorded. St. Louis, April 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 3

Floods now being experienced in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky are the worst ever recorded. The property losses amount to million of…

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Floods in America. a Town Inundated

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 5

Hickman (Kentucky), Wednesday.— The Mississippi River broke in the levee (an embankment to prevent inundation), and flooded the streets of the town to a…

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Flooded Mississippi. Serious Loss of Life. Hickman (Kentucky)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 April 1912 · page 5

The flood waters in the neighborhood of the town resulting from the everflowing of the Mississippi cover an area ten miles wide and fifty miles long. Twenty persons…

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Floods in America. Thrilling Experiences

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 April 1912 · page 4

St. Louis, Monday.—The death list owing to the floods is growing. The Mississippi River is still increasing in volume, and the steamer services have…

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Floods in Tennessee. Memphis (Tenn.) April 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 5

Reports from all quarters along the river indicate a subsidence of the floods. A serious feature, however, is the outbreak of fever in the refugee camps, in which there are 6000…

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Flooded Mississippi. Widespread Damage. Durnand (Wisconsin), April 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 2

An ice bridge formed on the Chippowa River and the floods behind it destroyed a large section of the Chicago-St. Paul-Milwaukee railroad…

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American Floods. Thousands of PEOPlE Homeless. New Orleans, April 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1912 · page 5

The west levee holding buck the Mississippi to its channel broke near Atlanta, and 1000 square miles of country have been flooded, and thousands of families have been…

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