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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

72 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 4

Heavy Rain in N.S.W. SYDNEY

The Independent · Tuesday 5 April 1927 · page 2

Heary rain is recorded in the Central and coastal districts, during the week-end. Otherwise light to heavy rain is recorded fairly generally over…

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Latest Telegrams. Floods and Loss of Life in the North. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 April 1927 · page 2

Rain continues to fall heavily in the northern rivers district. At Bellingen 855 points have been recorded in tour days, and the rivers and creeks are…

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Royal Tour Heavy Rain Falling Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 2

A cold wind was blowing and heavy rain falling when H.M.S. Renown, with the Duke and Duchess of York aboard, entered Port Phillip Harbour…

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Sydney Gale 2000 Windows Broken Sydney

The Independent · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 2

Shope caved in like concertinas under the howling blas[?] to-day's storm. Mou[?] seas are lashing the [?]onst, and communication has been…

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Clinging to Steeples Big Floods in America 75 DEAD; 30;000 Homeless Montreal

The Independent · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 2

A New York message states that the toll of life and destruction of property due to storms and floods in the Mississippi basin has continued unabated…

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Latest Cables. the Mississippi Floods. Fearful Loss of Life. Thirty Thousand Homeless. MONTREAL

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 2

A New York message states that the toll of life and destruction of property due to storms and floods in the Mississippi basin has continued…

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Telegrams American States Devastated by Floods Montreal

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1927 · page 2

A New York message states that the gravity of the disaster that has befallen town situated along the Mississippi basin through [?]…

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The Mississippi Floods. Unprecedented in Extent. Numbers of Villages and Towns Swept Away. Great Lost of Life and Property. VANCOUVER

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 April 1927 · page 3

A message from Greenville, Mississippi, states that more than a hundred negroes were drowned in the floods, eighteen miles north of here. At…

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Cyclone Costs the State £250,000

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 27 April 1927 · page 2

Seas[?] their calculation on reports received from police, fall and tramway con[?], the authorities estimate that damage done by the recent definite amount can of course be arrived at and a Government the official on Saturday. The damage in the city and rub[?] cannot be appr[?]ned…

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Canadian Floods New Orleans in Danger. 70,000 Acres to Be Flooded (Reuter) VANCOUVER

The Independent · Friday 29 April 1927 · page 2

A message from New Orleans says that, carrying all movable belongings, hundreds of trappers and farmers to-day left their homes in the surrounding…

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Latest Cables. the Mississipi Flood

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 April 1927 · page 2

Unsual Position at New Orleans. Levee Banks to be Cut to Save City. Would Mean Flooding of 70,000 Acres. Farmers Affected Threaten Resistance…

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Telegrams Big Losses Through Floods Montreal

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 30 April 1927 · page 2

A message from Momp[?] states that while it is impossible to state definitely the number of persons known to be dead as the result of the…

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Telegrams Flood in New Orleans Monteal

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 4 May 1927 · page 2

A News York message Date that the flood situation in New Orleans in generally believed to be more serious than is commonly understood due to…

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Staggering Loss Floods on Mississippi Waters Cover 15,000 Sq. Miles Vancouver

The Independent · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 2

A New Orleans message states that the devastation of four thousand square miles in Louisiana has been completed by two additional breaks in…

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News by Cable Mississippi Floods. Four More Breaks. New Orleans (U.S.A.). April 30

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 20

The floods which hitherto have been tragic enough, have now assumed the proportions of an appalling disaster. Four more serious breaks in the levees…

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The Mississippi Floods. Four Hundred Bodies Recovered. MONTREAL

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 1

It is now reliably stated that over 400 bodies of persons drowned by the flood have been recovered, while a still larger number are missing or…

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America's Disasterous Flood 15,000 Sq. Miles Inundated New Orleans

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1927 · page 3

Four thousand square miles of Louisitana have been flooded completely as a result of two additional breaks in the band of the Mississippi River…

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The Mississippi Floods. New Orleans

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 May 1927 · page 2

As a result of the breaking of the Levee at Morsauville, 60,000 more people Have been driven from their homes, and 1,000,000 acres are…

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Mississipi Floods Break in Bayou Levee. New Orleans, May 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1927 · page 44

The flood waters which yesterday began pouring over the dyke levels to lay made a break in the great section of the Bayou Desglaizes levee, in the…

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