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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1913

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Cablegrams. Flood and Fire. Horrors at Dayton. Death Roll Placed at 1600. Reservours Collapsing. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 March 1913 · page 2

The news from the flood centres yesterday only adds to the distress and anxiety created by the terrible calamity. Dayton is still experiencing fresh…

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Fire and Floods

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 March 1913 · page 2

The renewal of a blizzard is adding to the horrors of the situation at Dayton, U.S.A., where appalling losses have occurred this week through floods…

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Goulburn River in Flood. Shepparton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 March 1913 · page 3

The Gomburn river rose suddenly seven or eight feet in a few hours on Thursday night, owing to floods coming down the Broken River and Seven Creeks…

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Floods in New Zealand. Water in Streets Four Feet Deep. Railways and Electric Light Cut Off. Auckland

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 March 1913 · page 2

The [?] new devastating part of Southland have not been as serious during the past 30 years. Railway communication is destroyed in all directions, and in very…

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American Flood Disaster. I the Worst Over. £2,000,000 Damage at Dayton. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 March 1913 · page 2

Much better news was received on Friday from the flood centres in the Middle West, and evidently the worst is over. The i[?]dations at Dayton are…

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The Floods in America. Deaths Estimated at 1500. London

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 April 1913 · page 1

Advices from the flood zone show, that while the waters are abating, intense suffering and chaos prevail in many quarters…

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Floods in Ohio. the Waters Subsiding. Dayton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 April 1913 · page 2

Mr. Orville Wright, one of the Wright [?] of aviation fame, together with the members of his family was amongst there cut off by the floods. They [?] to…

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Storm in the Commons. Chancellor's Share Transactions. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 April 1913 · page 2

There was an unpleasant scene in the House of Commons last evening. Mr. Kebty-Fletcher, Unionist member for Altrincham, referring to the recent…

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Devastate in Ohio. Floods, Fires, and Blizzards. Awful, Loss of Life. New York, March 218

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 April 1913 · page 42

The unhappy prospect is that the disasters in the States of Ohio and Indiana will eclipse the grim record of the San Francisco earthquake seven years ago, when…

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Great Floods in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 April 1913 · page 20

The worst flood for thirty years prevailed in Southland Province of New Zealand this week. Railway communication everywhere was destroyed and traffic way dislocated by…

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Floods in New Zealand. Enormous Losses

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 4 April 1913 · page 6

The worst flood for thirty years is now prevailing in Southland Province. Railway communication has everywhere been destroyed and traffic…

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Floods in America. 5000 Miners Idle. Chicago

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 April 1913 · page 2

The [?] mines at Harrisburg are [?]…

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Floods in America. Harnessing Great Rivers. Chicago, April 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 April 1913 · page 43

Floods threaten the coal mines at Harrisburg, on the Susquehanna River, in Pennsylvania, and already 5000 men have been thrown idle…

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Snow Storms in Britain. Damage to Lambing. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 April 1913 · page 2

Heavy show has taken in the Midlands and north-eastern counties of England, and in the west of Scotland, causing serious damage in the lambing and greatly…

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83 Miles an Hour. Aeroplaning in a Storm. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 April 1913 · page 2

Additional particulars of the monoplane flight of Mr. Gustave Hamel from Dover to Cologne emphasises the splendid nature of the performance…

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Severe Thunderstorm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 May 1913 · page 41

A terrific thunder storm burst over Castlemaine on Saturday morning, the lightning was exceedingly vivid, while the peals of thunder were frequent and so loud…

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Floods in Louisiana. Hundreds Homeless. St. Louis

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

Serious floods are being experienced in the cotton growing district of Vidalia, on the Mississippi, in Louislana. Hundreds of people have been rendered homeless but…

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Thunderstorm at Wodonga. Wodonga, Friday Evening

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 May 1913 · page 2

There was a splendid fall of rain here during last night and to-day: 93 points were registered up to six o'clock this evening. Later a thunderstorm passed over…

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A Phenomenal Storm. the Train Service Interfered With

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 May 1913 · page 2

The Berrigan district was visited by a rain storm on Friday evening last the like of which has not been known for many years, if at all. For…

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Schooner in a Storm

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

The live-inasted American schooner George E. Billings which ran ashore in Botany Bay last night in a heavy gale, was this morning lying on the Howard…

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