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Floods & storms, 1910

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Floods in Coulburn River

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 33

The recent heavy rain caused the rapid flooding of the Goulburn River, and the Wood's Point, Mansfield, and Alexandra roads have been submerged in many…

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Unprecedented Floods Northern Austria Submerged. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 2

Continual downpours of rain have occurred in Central and Northern Austria and many districts of moravia have been flooded. Houses to the number of one…

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Disastrous Floods. Roads Become Torrents. Many Deaths. London, September 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 43

Continual downpours of rain in Central and Northern Austria have been experienced, and many districts of Moravia are flooded. At Ungarish-Hradisch 100 houses…

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Jute Crop Spoilt by Floods

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 5

The floods in India sometime back hare had a disastrous effect on the jute crop. Forecasts made in India place the shortage at 8,000,000 bales, and the markets at…

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Big Flood at Barrenjack. Yass

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 3

The recent heavy rains have been followed by a great rise in the Murrumbidgee and the plant which has been in use for the construction of the Barrenjack dam…

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A Sea Storm. "Clangour and Boom and Roar."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 3

Many have sung of the terrors of Storm : I Will make me a song of its beauty, its graces of hue and form ;…

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Zeroplanes for War Manoeuvring in a Thunderstorm. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

The Clement Bayard airship, belonging to the French Army, came very close to disaster while en route to Compiegne. The big vessel was carrying out some…

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Floods in India Many Thousands Homeless. River Swallows Up Town

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 2

The British commissioner for Mooltan, in the Punjab, forwards a grave account of the havoc wrought by floods in this district…

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"The Storm in a Teacup."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 September 1910 · page 2

The crisis in the history of the Albury Racing Club—"the storm in the teacub"—has been safely weathered, and the club should now go on and prosper exceedingly…

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Storms in Asia

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 5

Extremely rough weather is being experienced off the East coast of Asia. Several large steamships are reported to have been wrecked involving heavy loss of life…

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First Mutterings of the Storm. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 2

There had been great disquiet in Lisbon on Friday and Saturday last, owing to violent strikes by several trade associations…

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A Sea Storm. "Clangour and Boom and Roar"

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 3

Many have sung of the terrors of Storm: I will make me a song of its beauty. Its graces of buo and form:…

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Gales in the East. Several Steamers Wrecked. Great Loss of Life. Vancouver, September 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 41

Very severe weather has been experienced along the coasts of Japan, Korea, and China. The latest news records the wrecks of several large steamships…

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Terrific Rainstorms Flood Huge Area

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 2

Rainstorms have flooded a strip of country extending from eastern Texas across northern Louisaua, Mississippi, Tennesee, and Keniucky. The whole area has been…

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Heavy Flood in River Ganges

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 October 1910 · page 2

Intelligence is to hand from Calcutta that while thousands of native pilgrims were preparing to bathe in the river Ganges at [?] the waters suddenly rose, and…

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July in October Antarctic Storm Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 2

In the last 2½ hours the greater part of the southern portion of the continent had been under the influence of an antarctic disturbance than has produced…

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Warnings of the Storm. Dramatic Street Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 42

Disquiet at Lisbon was felt on Friday and Saturday, owing to the outbreak of violent strikes in several trades. The association of Cork Workers seized the…

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Cablegrams. an Awful Storm Devastation in Cuba. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 October 1910 · page 3

The awful storm which has devastated Cuba and other islands of the West Indies has caused heavy loss of life. The latest advices state that 100 people…

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West Indian Storm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 41

A terrific storm has swept over Florida and Cuba. A great deal of damage was done…

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Storm-swept Cuba. Havana Houses Flooded. Vancouver, October 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 46

Cuba is in the grip of a blinding hurricane. The waves, whipped to fury by the violence of the wind, have overtopped the sea walls at Havana, and are flooding the…

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