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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1909

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Terrible Cyclone. 3000 Houses Destroyed. London, September 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 42

Accounts of a cyclone which swept the province of Catania, in Sicily, with disastrous results, have been published by the "Daily Chronicle."…

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Floods in Java

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 42

Disastrous floods have occurred on the north coast of Java. The Lormadjang district and the town of Probolinggo have been devastated, and 500 deaths are…

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Mexican Floods. Terrible Scenes. London, September 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 42

Terrible scenes are being presented at Monterey, in Northern Mexico, where the great floods caused the death of 2000 people. One thousand bodies have been…

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Annual Show Carnival. the Second Day. Record Gale Receipts

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 September 1909 · page 5

A mighty throng crowded the Albury Show Grounds yesterday a bright, busy, happy [?] of people with every outward and visible mark of prosperity plainly…

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Aurora Borealis Causes a Magnetic Storm. Telegraphic Business Delayed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 September 1909 · page 2

Telegraphic business in Great Britain, on the Continued, and in North Australia was seriously interfered with on Su[?] by a magnetic storm a high for two hours…

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Gales Along the Coast Bad Time for Shipping. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 5

The fierce gale was still raging along the coast this morning but is had somewhat abated in violence near Sydney. The Manly ferry steamers were only running…

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The Magnetic Storm Sir Oliver Lodge's Opinion. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 2

Sir [?] Lodge, Principal of the University of Birmingham, has stated that the c[?] electro-mag[?] disturbance [?] in Europe and America a few days…

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Gales Along the Coast Heavy Weather Moderating. Fleet of Belated Shipping Arrives. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 2

The [?]sually heavy weather which has prova[?]d along the coast of New South Wales abated from the carly hours of this morning, and the fleet of belated steamers…

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Disaster in East Java. Flooded Crater Collapses

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 30

A correspondent writing from Singapore on September 10 says:—"Reports have reached here giving details of enormous damage at East Java owing to the…

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Be Assistance to Flooded-out Settlers

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 4

Sir,—With reference to the letter presented by you from the Deniliquin Branch of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association (Mr Q, Evaus. hon, sec,),…

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Cyclone in India Stations Wrecked and Boats Sunk. London, Wednesday. Denounced by Mr. Churchill. the Frenzy of the Few. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

Now has just been received of the occurrence of a terrible cylcone in Bengal So far only [?] particulars are available. Mr. Winston Churchill President of the Board of Trade in an address to his constituents at Dundee, made a vigorous attack on the militant Suffregettes and…

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Floods in England

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 November 1909 · page 2

The heavy floods in the south of England have not subsided, At Cauterbury and Folkestone boats are to be seen in the streets. For miles around Lowos, in…

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Flooded Towns in Wales Flight of Scantily Clad Women and Children

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 November 1909 · page 3

For twenty-four hours, commencing early on Tuesday morning (Sept. 28) rain [?] in torrents in South Wales. D[?] floods were the result. Rivers burnt their banks…

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Floods in England. Great Damage to Crops. London. October 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 November 1909 · page 42

Torrential rains have fallen in London and the South-eastern counties. There have been floods in the Medway Valley, and wholesale destruction of crops in…

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Wind Storm

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 November 1909 · page 2

A violent wind storm raged in the district on Tuesday night, and we understand a number of crops were damaged by being levelled to the ground…

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Cablegrams. Earthquakes and Landslides Heavy Strom at Jamaica West Indies Devastated. Great Damage by Floods. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 November 1909 · page 2

Jamaica has been cut [?]from communication with the rest of the world because of damage [?] by gr[?] floods. All the cables have been broken, and…

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Floods in the West Indies Damage in Jamaica. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

Further particulars of the disastrous foods experienced in Jamaica have been received. The railway between Kingston and Port…

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Storms Anh Sold. Jamajcan Devastation

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 47

The violence of the torre[?]ial rain experienced in Jamaica, devastating the entry island, may be estimated from the fact that the total fall was 48 inches. The rain…

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Storms in Europe. Iron-laded Steamer Stranded. London, November 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 42

Stormy weather is being experienced in Europe. The Gorman steamer Wilna, laden with iron, became stranded on the island of Vlieland, at the entrance of the Zuyder…

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Floods in Asia Minor

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 2

Heavy rains in the South Eastern districts of Asia Minor have caused disastrous floods at Adana, a large town on the River Sei[?]n. Five hundred houses were…

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