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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1913

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The Christmas Gales. Steamer Struck by Huge Wave. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 2

The Italian steamer Trento has been towed to [?] being in a crippled condition resembling that of the P. and [?] branch liner Narrung. The…

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Great Storms in America Worst Blizzard for Twenty Years. Numerous Fatalities. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 2

The passing of the old year has been marked in the United States by extremely bitter weather. In Chicago and Milwankee a blizzard…

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Gales on the America Coasi. Bring Death and Desuction. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 2

Very serve weather conti to be experienced in many parts of United States. Heavy gales are sweep the [?]. Sections of the sea own of…

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Terrific Storms on Coast

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

Terrific storms continue to be experienced on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Snowslides have rendered the railways unworkable in many places in the Middle…

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Storms on Sea and Land Terrible Weather in America. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

The steamer Kroonland is aground. She has 800 passengers on board. Tugs are assisting the vessel, whose position is not believed to be dangerous…

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Drought to Floods

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 42

Torrential rains have fallen in Natal and on the Transkei border. As the result of a number of dams having burst in the north-west, many sheep have been…

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A Fierce Storm. Gerogery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I am glad to hear I won a merit card in the poetry competition. We had a terrific storm here lately, and it blew down a lot of trees. One of…

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Cablegrams. Sudden Flood at Mid-night. 350 Perish in Africa. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 2

News has been received from Suakim that disaster has overtaken a caravan of Indian pilgrims while they were making the journey of 125 miles between Medina,…

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New South Wales. Steamer in Terrific Gale. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 January 1913 · page 6

The Adelaide Company's steamer Wollawra, from North Queensland, arrived in Sydney last night after one of the wildest passages on record. The steamer…

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Cyclone at Cairns

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 2

News from Cairus states that a cyclone swept the district, but no particulars are to hand. The steamers Palmer and Inna[?] are sheltering under Cape Grafton…

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Severe Cyclone in Queensland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1913 · page 33

The Brisbane Harbour Master, Captain Mackay, received a telegram from Port Douglas, on Friday, stating that a severe cyclone was being experienced at…

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Heavy Rain in South Australia. Adelaide Flooded. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 February 1913 · page 2

A terrific downpour of rain occasioned widespread damage in all parts of South Australia yesterday. Adelaide is under water, and many…

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A Local Storm Centre. Damage at the Irrigation Pumping Works

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

Yesterday, about 4 p.m. a terrific windstorm, followed by a heavy fall of rain and hail, passed over the east of the town. The engineer at the new Irrigation…

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Fierce Storm at Jindera

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

Around Jindem the storm was terrific Limbs of trees an the north of the gap were cut down like carrots, while many others were blown completely down. The…

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Furious Hail Storm. a Man Knocked Insensible

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 February 1913 · page 2

All unprecedented hall storm broke ever Cootamundra on Monday evening. Not in twenty years has anything like it been seen. The wind was from the…

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Severe Storm

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

After two days of distressing heat a storm of particular severity broke over. Narandera on Friday night. The wind for some time blew with…

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Storm at Gilgandra. Men and Houses Burt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 4

Gilgandra was again visited on Friday by a severe storm, the second within a week. This time it was a very heavy hail storm, and the streets were covered with…

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The Dardanelles. Storm Delays Greeks. London, February 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 February 1913 · page 42

A gale in the Egean Sea delayed the passage of 35 Greek transports from Mity-lene, the intention having been to land troops at Besaka Bay. In the meantime…

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Rain and Thunderstorms in Parts

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 February 1913 · page 28

Thursday's weather forecast for New South Wales:—"Sultry generally some rain and thunderstorms, chiefly over N. and N.E. districts; northerly winds."…

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About Thunderstorms

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 March 1913 · page 3

Thunderstorms never occur in the Arctic regions. The nearer the equator the more severe are the electric manifestations…

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