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Floods & storms, 1909

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Great Floods in America. Trains Roll Down Embankments Many Passengers Drowned London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 July 1909 · page 2

A Reuter's message from kansas, U.S.A. announces that the enormous floods which have worked great devastation in the States of Colorado, Ohio, and missouri…

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Floods In America. Enormous Damage. London, July 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 42

Great floods have occurred throughout" Colorado, Ohio, and Missouri. Enormous damage has been done, and the food supplies of the people, in some…

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Flood Levels

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 2

A peculiar thing in connection with the late flood is the variableness of the gaugings taken at certain places, as for instance:--Tintaldra 9 inches higher than…

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Heavy Gale in the City Three Walls Collapse. Several Men Injured. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 July 1909 · page 2

A terrific gale swept over the city at noon to-day, the force of the wind at one time attaining the velocity of 52 miles an hour. So great wes the violence that…

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Another Gale in Sydney. Trials of Shipping. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 2

Another flores westerly gale blow to-day causing much anxiety in shipping circles, The steamer Oplnnd. bound from Newcastle was anchored in Lavender Hay,…

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Floods in Manchuria 1000 Drowned at Kirin. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 2

News has been received of the occurred of disastrous floods in Manchuria. Great damage has been wrought over a large area of country…

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Rising Fast at Jingellic. Another Flood Anticipated Jingellic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 5

"At 10 p.m. the Murray was 10ft. the above summer level and rising fast. The waters started to rise this morning owing to a very large freshot coming down. At…

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Another Flood Expected. River Rising at Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 5

Our Corryong correspondent telegraphed early yesterday morning that the River Murray was running a banker and that there was a very large body of water…

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The Floods

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 2

In connection with the floods at Kotupna (Victoria) the position is regarded as very serious. Owing to the action of the Public Works…

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Latest Telegrams. Gales and Floods. Great Damage in Victoria. Sydney, Friday Night

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 2

Serious floods are reported in many parts of Victoria. A terrific thunderstorm at Inglewood caused the town to be flooded, and many houses were…

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Rain and Floods in Victoria. Echuca

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 2

Heavy rain fell yesterday, an inch of rain being measured. A wire from Elmore last night stated the Campaspe river had risen 11ft. and was rising last…

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Rivers in Flood. the Edward Reaches 22 FEET

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 2

At Albury this week the Murray reached 13ft. 7in. and then commenced to slowly recede. The river at Echuca has been very high all the week, from…

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The Victorian Floods. Later Particulars

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 2

The train from Melbourne to Echuca was held up two miles south of Rochester on Friday, on account of flood waters. The Deniliquin and Moama Company's…

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Floods in Victoria. Two Women Drowned. Damage and Loss of Stock. Some Thrilling Experiences. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 4

During the past 36 hours heavy rain has fallen in almost every part of the State. The tributaries of the Murray are gradually rising…

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Floods in Victoria

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 4

The effects of the great rainfall have been in many ways disastrous. It is forty years since Victoria has suffered a like visitation (says the…

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Floods in Victoria. Heavy Damage. Trains Stopped

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 2

With the recent heavy rains which have fallen all through Victoria and New South Wales, heavy floods have been anticipated, but it is questionable…

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Arrival of the Wonga Fell. Captain's Story of the Storm. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 42

The steamer Wonga Fell, which sailed from Gape Town direct for Sydney on the day on which the Waratah was due at that port from Durban, arrived to-day…

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Waipara Strikes a Rock Her Three Holds Flooded. Passengers and Crew Saved. the Vessel Beached. Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

The steamer Waipara, 5505 tons, of the Federal Houlder Shire Line and bound from Brisbane to London via Sydney, left Brisbane last night. At midnight she dd…

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Cablegrams. the Victorian Floods Indian Sympathy and Offers of Assistance. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

The Maharaja Kumar, Sir Prodyet Coomar Tagore, has sent a cablegram to Captain R. M. Collins, the representative of the Australian Commonwealth in London,…

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Victorian Floods Widespread Devastation. Bridge Washed Away. Reservoirs Burst. Passengers' Awful Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 44

Particulars were received of the sensational railway accident, which occurred at M'Callum's Creek, between Talbot and Clunes…

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