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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

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Further Storms in Europe

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 2

Disastrous storms have been experienced in Transylvania, Hungry. The tempestuous wind and rain played havoc with many houses and bridges in the province. Thirty…

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Storm in Western Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 28

Stormy conditions prevailed on Friday and Saturday on the coast. The barometer fell to 29.34, the lowest reading for years, and a strong westerly gale caused…

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Violent Storms. Germany and Italy Visited. Many Lives Lost. London, July 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 43

The present summer has been remarkable for severe thunderstorms which have been experienced in Europe, and particularly in Germany and Austria. In June Berlin…

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A Warehouse Flooded. Water Main Bursts on Top Floor

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 28

Great damage was done early on Monday morning at the warehouse of Messrs. Sargood Brothers, warehousemen and importers, Flinders-lane, Melbourne, by the…

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The Mongolia in a Gale. Fremantle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 August 1910 · page 2

The mail steamer Mongolia, after a delay of 12 hours through the heavy weather which she ran through, arrived in the Irarbor this afternoon. The liner was…

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Floods in Japan Towns Washed Away. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 August 1910 · page 2

A continuance of the disastrous floods in Japan is reported. Hundreds of houses were submerged at Shidzuoka near Tekio, and a fatal landslide occurred in the…

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The Japanese Floods

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 August 1910 · page 2

The disastrous floods in Japan have brought ruin to fully 150.000 persons in Tokio alone. Very little inconvenience has been experienced in the Foreign…

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The Japanese Floods

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 August 1910 · page 3

Official estimates relating to the disastrous floods in Japan have been published. The fatalities numbered 112. Once hundred and fifty thousand houses were…

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Floods in Japan. 30,000 Houses Submerged. Starvation Threatened. London, August 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 August 1910 · page 42

The great rainfall reported a few days ago at Shidzuoko, south of Tokio, where severe floods resulted, has continued, extending northwards to Tokio…

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Storms in Tasmania

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1910 · page 31

On Saturday morning a slip occurred on the railway line between Evandale Junction and Breadalbane, the road having subsided about a foot for a distance of nearly…

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Cablegrams. Instrument of the Lord Another Declaration by the Kaiser. Storm of Criticism. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 August 1910 · page 2

The Kaiser has once again permitted himself to indulge in extravagant metaphor in the course of a remarkable speech delivered at Konigsberg on the occasion of…

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Floods in Japan. Enormous Losses. London. August 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 September 1910 · page 42

An estimate of the damage caused by the recent floods in Japan shows that the farmers and sericulturists have suffered very severely. Their losses are believed to…

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Two Days of Lightning. Wandering Thunderstorms. Death and Fire

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1910 · page 8
Also in The Berrigan Advocate

A remarkable series of wanderiag thunderstorms raged throughout the South of England and on parts of the Continent early in the week (said…

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Thunderstorms. and Earthquakes

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 2 September 1910 · page 3

Two weeks ago my friends interested me with queries about the possibility of a relationship between earthquakes and a comet. After their experiences this…

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An Embankment Bursts Large Town Flooded. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 September 1910 · page 2

Continuous rainfall of forty-eight hours' duration caused the River Temes. in southeast Hungary, to break through an em-bankment in the vicinity of Temesvar, a…

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Cyclone in Hungary

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 September 1910 · page 2

A cyclone which has swept over Hungary wrecked 250 houses at Tolmoerke. One chunch was destroyed and big trees torn up by the roots and carried fully half a…

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Storm and Rain at Beech Worth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 23

Considerable destruction of property has resulted from the heavy rains of last week. Mr. David Sparkes, of Oxley, lost a large number of sheep. It is believed…

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Flying in a Gale. Thrilling Trip. "A Fearful Risk."

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 5

All extraordinary battle with the wind, which for sheer skill and daring equalled, and in some respects excelled, Mr. Latham's memorable struggle at…

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Germanton Show Marked by Heavy Thunder. Storm

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

The Germanton Show was concluded yesterday. The morning broke dull and at noon showers fell. They, however, were of short duration and the weather again…

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