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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

18 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Cyclone at Cunnamulla. BRISBANE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

A terrific cyclone and thunderstorm occurred at Cunnamulla. A buggy contouring two people was lifted bodily from…

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Terrific Storm in Sydney. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1912 · page 2

A terrific storm, accompanied by deafening thunder vivid lightning, blinding rain, and a cyclonic wind, occurred…

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Storm at Colinton

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 3

A heavy storm fell at Colinton on Wednesday, doing considerable damage to the property of Mr. Alfred Wallace…

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Great Storm. Trams Damaged. Danger by Lightning. Twelve Cars Struck. Sydney

Delegate Argus · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

A most remarkable storm, causing considerable damage and several accidents, passed over Sydney yesterday afternoon…

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A Belic of Gundagai Flood. Sable Hero of 1852

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 3

An interesting relic of the earlier days of Gundagai which town was washed away by the heavy floods in the…

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Intercolonial News. SYDNEY, Friday. Severe Storm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 3

One of the most remarkable storms ever experienced in Sydney, occurred last night. The lightning was incessant, and the…

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The Towamba Storm

The Bombala Times · Friday 12 April 1912 · page 4

Mr. C. W. E. Bedford, Imlay Shire engineer, visited the storm swept area at Towamba this week, and found that the reports of damage…

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Missi[?]ppi Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 2

Further great floods have occurred on the Mississippi Valley. A report states that 200 persons were drowned by the bursting of…

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Damage by Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 6 May 1912 · page 2

Floods caused two breaks on the Mississippi, near Louisiana. The situation is serious, and there is a general belief that…

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Intercolonial News. (By Telegram form our, Correspondent). SYDNEY, Monday. River [?] in Flood

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1912 · page 2

The Hawkesbury River was in high flood yesterday but to-day it is rapidly receding. The country between Mulgrave end…

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Terrific Cyclone at Grenfell

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 2

A terrific cyclone, immediately followed by hall and rain, burst upon Grenfell last Monday evening Sheets of iron,…

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Terrific Cyclone. Great Damage at Grenfell

The Bombala Times · Friday 30 August 1912 · page 6

A terrific cyclone struck Grenfell town last Monday night. Reports received in Sydney next morning stare that the town is practically wrecked…

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Westerly Gales in Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1912 · page 2

Fierce westerly gales raged yesterday, the velocity of the squalls being up to 62 miles an hour. Mush damage was…

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MELBOURNE, Friday. The Floods in - Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 2

The latest reports receives at a late hour last night state that the Hood waters show an appreciable diminution…

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Floods in Victoria. Unprecedented Destruction. Loss of Life

The Bombala Times · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Reports of disastrous floods, attended in two cases by loss of life, and, generally by widespread destruction of stock and other…

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Terrible Storm Throughout Japan

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1912 · page 2

A terrible storm has ob[?] throughout [?] Two destroyers were [?] the rocks, on the north [?]…

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Great Floods in China. Thousands Drowned. Peking, September 10

The Bombala Times · Friday 25 October 1912 · page 2

China has been visited by another of the terrible floods to which she is peculiarly susceptible. A letter from Wenchow states…

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Severe Storm in Sydney

The Bombala Times · Friday 29 November 1912 · page 5

One of the worst rain and hail storms ever experienced in Sydney occurred at noon on Saturday. The streets were flooded and street traffic was greatly…

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