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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1901

49 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3

Serious Floods In England. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 2

SERIOUS floods have occurred in England. Hundreds of people were compelled to leave their homes, the damage at Coventry amounting to £50,000…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Terrific Storm in Sydney. Theee Inches of Rain in 30 Minutes. Immense Destruction to Peopeety. All Traffic Entirely Suspended

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 4

A remarkable storm burst over the City at ten o'clock last night, accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning…

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Heavy Storm in Sydney

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

A remarkable storm burst over Sydney at 10 o'clock on Monday night, accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning. Nearly three inches of rain…

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Terrible Storm in Sydney. Three Inches of Rain in Thirty Minutes. All Traffic Entirely Suspended. Immense Destruction to Property. Sydney

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 3

A REMARKABLE storm burst over the city last night at 10 o'clock, accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning. Nearly three inches of rain fell in half an hour, being a record…

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Dust Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 3

Broken Hill was visited by an unprecedented dust storm. Huge banks of red dust rolled into the town with hurricane force, darkness followed, and business was suspended for…

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Telegrams. a Broken Hill Storm. the Town in Darkness. Sydney, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 2

BROKEN HILL was visited by an unprecedented dust storm. Huge banks of red dust rolled into the town mith hurricane force. Darkness followed, and business…

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Crumbs. Heavy Rain

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1901 · page 2

Greatly needed. Campaign opened. Civic elections dull. Meetings and meetings…

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Equinoctial Gales

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 6

Few ideas are more firmly rooted in the popular mind than the notion that the equinoxes are times when severe gales are to be expected. Last Friday the sun…

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Cyclone in Melbourne

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 4

A terrific cyclone passed over Melbourne last night. Many pedestrians were carried off their feet. Buildings were unroofed and all traffic was…

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South African Storms

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 1

The thunderstorms of South Africa are very violent in character, and no wet season posses without its record of lightning acoidents. The natives…

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South African Storms

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 7

The thunderstorms of South Africa are very violent in character, and no wet season passes without its record of lightning accidents. The natives…

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Floods in South Australia

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 4

Heavy rain has fallen in the northern districts of South Australia, and floods are reported in some parts…

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How a Cyclone Works

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 7

CUBA is stated by Mr. Ellicot, of the United States navy, in an article in the 'St. Nicholas' to be the cradle of the cyclones that…

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Vessels Storm Bound

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 4

Owing to rough weather 300 vessels are storm bound at the mouth of the Thamos…

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Heavy Storm in S.a

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 5

A heavy storm took place at Glenelg, South Australia, yesterday. Seventeen boats, including several yachts and fishing craft, sunk…

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An Alarming Prediction. a Deluge Next December

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 7

On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of surprising interest and importance. It…

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Heavy Storm in Victoria

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 5

A great storm raged in Victoria yesterday, many vessels in Hobson's Bay being dragged from their anchors, while a ketch was driven…

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Heavy Rain at Kiama

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 4

There has been very heavy rain at Kiama. All the aborigines in the low lying parts of the district are making for the hills fearing floods…

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An Alarming Prediction. a Deluge Next December

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 4

On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient, city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of surprising…

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Gales at the Islands. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 5

NEWS from the Fiji group is to the effect that there were heavy gales at the Islands. Several cutters were wrecked and…

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