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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

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

Heavy Rain and Snow

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 2

Owing to heavy rain falling at the show grounds yesterday, ring events were greatly interfered with. Heavy rain has fallen at Upper…

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Telegrams. Floods

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 2

Heavy rains have been recorded in Edinburgh, and several suburbs have been badly flooded…

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Cyclone in Missouri Many Killed, Hundreds Injured VANCOUVER

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 1 October 1927 · page 2

A message from St. Louis Missouri states that 41 persons were killed at the result of a terrific cyclone and rainstorm which occurred to-day…

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Rain in Victoria Floods in Gippsland Yallourn Mine Idle

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 5 October 1927 · page 5

About 400 miners at the State Electricity Commissioner's coal mine at Yallourn are temporarily unemployed as a result of the flood at Yallourn…

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Tuesday Nights' Storm

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 5 November 1927 · page 2

About five P.m. on Tuesday last a lerritic wind and duststorm swept over the town with hurrieane force from south-west, and soon enveloped the…

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Houses Wrecked Storm at Thyra -Bunai [?] Tennis Association Function [?] Thyea, [?]

The Independent · Tuesday 8 November 1927 · page 2

A th[?]panied by a [?]passed through Thyra-[?]…

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Flood Disaster in U.S.A. Over 100 Lives Lost

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 November 1927 · page 2

Many lives have been lost as the result of the collapse of a large reservoir at Montpelier (Vermont). The city is completely isolated. Sections…

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New England Floods 50,000 Homeless; 125 Dead New York

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 9 November 1927 · page 3

The New York military authorities estimate the death roll caused by the New England floods at 125 person, of which number 76 have already been…

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Flood Disaster in U.S.A. OVER 100 Lives Lost

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 12 November 1927 · page 3

Many lives have been lost, as the result of the collapse of a large reservior at Montpelier (Vermont). The city is completely isolated. Sections of…

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Fearful Storms Visit American Capital WASHINGTON, January 7

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1927 · page 3

A [?] the city to-day,[?]…

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Algeria Flood Hundreds Perish Ravine Where Town Stood

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 3 December 1927 · page 1

An Algiers report gives graphic details of the flood in which 6 Europeans and hundreds of Algorians perished…

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Mail Train Saved Railway Ganger's Discovery Flood Destroys Embankment

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 4

More like fiction than fact is the story of how, a railway ganger named Ryan saved the Kempsey mail from disaster on Monday. Ryan is in…

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