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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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A Cyclone in Natal. Hundreds of Lives Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 7

Early last month Natal was visited by a cyclone which was attended with disastrous results, hundreds of lives being lost and enormous damage being…

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Flood in the Murray

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

The Murray is still rising, and the water is within a foot of the highest flood level. The portion, is more critical than aver, and grave…

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Floods in the Marray. [?]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 5

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What flood Will Result ?

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1905 · page 4

Will any benefit result to the country by the Lands Commission Inquiry? This question is…

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The Natal Flood. Appalling Loss of Life

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 2

A Durban correspondent, writing in reference to the recent ruinous floods and gales in Natal, gives the following vivid description of the effect…

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A Fatal Storm. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 4

On Monday,at Humble, Texas, In the United States, lightning struck 11 tanks containing 25million barrels of oil. Fires raged for 24 hours, and 12 negroes…

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A Strange Storm Warning

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1905 · page 7

WHILE a British brig won gliding smoothly along before a good breeze in the South Pacific, some seventeen years ago, a flock of Small birds,…

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Floods in Ireland

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1905 · page 4

Great damage has been done by. floods in Ireland…

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A Cyclonic Storm. Shipping Disasters. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

THE predicted cyclonic storm passed over this State last night, and dangerous conditions prevailed on the coast. Strong gales continue with tremendous…

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Floods in Shanghal

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 4

Great floods have occurred at Shanghai. Villages have been demolished, and hundreds of persons drowned…

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Nothing but a Flood

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 2

AN old Clarence River farmer, who has seen 40 winters on the Clarence, thinks that nothing but a flood can do any good now. He says the land was worked out, and needed a soaking such as the…

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Floods in India

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 6

Great floods have occurred in Punjanb, doing immense damage to buildings and causing enormous losses amongst live stock…

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Disastrous Storm at Shanghai

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 3

Officers of the E. and A. mail steamer Eastern, which arrived last Friday from the East, report that upwards of 20,000 lives were lost in a…

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A Ship Flooded

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 4

The Cuoard liner 'Campania' was flooded by a great wave off Newfoundland. Five steerage passengers were swept overboard, and thirty others…

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Storm at Glendon

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon, out Glendon way, a terrific storm was experienced. At the Station hail fell for over twenty minutes. The small masses of ice precipitated from…

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Storm at Glendon

The Inverell Times · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon, out Glendon way, a terrific storm was experienced. At the Station hail fell for over twenty minutes. The small…

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Storm in Brisbane

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4

During a cyclonic storm in Brisbane yesterday, 421 points of rain were registered in a few hours. Enormous damage was done to property, houses…

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Deluge at Emmaville

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 2

EMMAVILLE was visited by a terrifiC thunderstorm on Thursday, one of the heaviest experienced in the history of the mining township. Rain commenced at mid-day, and continued with unabated…

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Phenomenal Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 2

RECENTLY reference was made in these columns to a devastating hailstorm at Glendon, and it would appear from particulars supplied the EXAMINER by a correspondent…

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Heavy Storm and Loss of Life

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1905 · page 4

A TERRIFIC storm broke over Brisbane on Thursday, accompanied by heavy crashes of thunder and vivid lightning, whilst rain and hail fell in sheets. The deluge was so…

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