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Floods & storms, 1911

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In Death Valley. Heat Wave and Floods. San Francisco, July 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 July 1911 · page 43

Terrific cloud bursts have occurred in Death Valley, California, which is considerably below sea level. They followed upon an intense heat wave, when the…

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Floods in Alaska. Glacial Lake Bursts. Valdez.(Alaska), July 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 July 1911 · page 43

Floods of unprecedented magnitude, duo to the recent heat wave, have occurred here. A huge volume of water burst from a glacial lake, and flooded the surrounding…

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Floods in China Great Inland Sea. Peking

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 2

Exceptionally heavy rains have lately fallen in the Yangsze Valley. As a consequence the district in the vicinity of the treaty port of Ichang, which…

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Cablegrams. Fearful Storm in London Wind. Rain and Hail Tube Railways Flooded. Extraordinary Fall Ix Temper. Ature. Six Hundred Children Buried. London"

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 July 1911 · page 2

A terrific and most extraordinary storm swept over London, causing dreadful havoc and putting everyone into most fearful panic…

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Rearse Stopped by Flood. Portarlington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 1 August 1911 · page 3

The in[?]ral of Mrs. Thomas Pigdon, who died suddenly at St. Leonards on Friday afternoon, was to have been held yesterday afternoon. The cortege left…

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Albury Municipal Council. Business Adjourned Owing to a "Storm."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 August 1911 · page 4

Last night there was a frill meeting of the Albury Municipal Council, and a mass of business to attend to. But a wild scene ensued Jest after the minutes were…

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Floods in Nicaragua. Fifty Deaths. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 August 1911 · page 2

Calamitous floods tare reported from Nicaragua. Fifty deaths have already been reported and a gunboat has been sunk. It is said that the present floods…

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Destructive Floods in China. Shanghai

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 August 1911 · page 2

Floods at A[?] have destroyed [?],000 acres of rice, and half a million people are homeless…

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Cyclone in Canada Shack Carried Hundred Yards. Winnipeg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 2

A cyclone visited the High River District in the Alberta Province on Tuesday, and Tracked general devastation. A shack occupied by a woman and [?]hild…

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Storm in America. Five Lives Lost. Winnipeg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 3

A remarkable storm visitation, was experienced in Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and across the frontier in Northern Dakota. Two tornadoes met in…

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Floods in Switzerland Villages Half Destroyed. Berne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 August 1911 · page 2

Serious [?] have occurred in the Valley of the Massino, Switzerland. Eight s[?]ouses have been destroyed by a terront and nine persons killed. Two…

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Devastating Storm Several Lives Lost. Savannah

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 2

A great storm in raging through the Southern States of U.S.A. Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, has suffered particularly. The…

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The Storm at Charleston Six Torpedo Boats Ashore. Seventy-five People Marooned. Charleston

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 2

Further details with regard to the storm which has caused havoc here and elsewhere in the States of South Carolina and Georgia continue to come to hand…

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Alcohol Ignited. Damage in a Storm. Rome, August 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 43

During a fierce electrical storm over Milan yesterday lightning set fire to the alcohol in the distilleries of the city. Nearly 220,000 gallons of the spirit were…

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Floods in Switzerland. Villages Destroyed. Berne, August 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 42

Serious floods have occurred in the valley of the Massine. A torrent destroyed eight farm houses, nine persons being killed, while two others are missing. Several…

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A Hillside Storm Lightning Thunder, and Rain-burst. How the Waters Tumbled Down Old Howlong Road

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 4 September 1911 · page 2

It came without warning. There was a bright sun westering in a blue sky, after a fitful shower of half an hour before. Then the sky changed color in an…

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Bitter Weather on the Continent. Damage by Storms Berne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 September 1911 · page 2

Bitter weather has been experienced, in Switzerland and Southern Germany. A deluge of rain fell at the busy port of Constance on the Lake of the same name…

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Morocco the Storm Centre

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 7

The importance of the German proposals centres in Morocco. The other issues, previously raised, have been placed in the background…

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A Disastrous Gale. Ketchikan (Alaska)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 September 1911 · page 2

A gale struck a cannery here, wrecking it completely, and sweeping 2.000,000 cans of salmon into the sea…

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War Declared Between Italy and Turkey. Occupation of Tripoli. Six Turkish Torpedo Boats Pursued. Patrol of The Eastern Mediterranean. Greece Mobilising Her Army. Italy's Land Hunger. Blockade of Tripoli Commences. Tripoli Storm Bursts. Italy Notifies Powers. Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 2

It is officially announced here that the Ottoman Government has failed to meet the Italian ultimatum presented yesterday. Therefore Italy and Turkey are in a state…

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