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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1906

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The Victorian Floods

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 September 1906 · page 5

During the progress of the floods in Victoria a boy whose name is said to be Charles Doherty, was drowned about 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon…

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Victorian Floods

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1906 · page 2

Disastrous floods have occurred in Victoria. Two bridges, the Methodist Church, and the State School has been swept away in the Kilmore…

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Preventing the Floods

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 2

HOLLAND is a country of wooden piles and dykes, for the people are perpetually fighting against the encroachtments of water. One building in Amsterdam rests on no fewer…

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Floods at Hay

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

The river Murrumbidgee at Hay is in flood, and all the low lying lands are covered…

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Storm in Encland Torrential Rain. Crops Damagel. Volunteer Camp Wrecked

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

London beheld last night (find August) one of the grandest exhibitions of atmospheric electrical disturbances witnessed for many a day…

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Destructive Floods. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1906 · page 2

FLOODS continue in the Albury district Dwelling houses have been swamped, and stock and poultry drowned. The low-lying purls of Wagga are also…

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Cyclonic Storm at Grafton

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 4

A TERRIPIC thunderstorm passed over Grafton district on Tuesday afternoon. It was accompanied by heavy hail, which cut down the crops, stripped the fruit trees, and…

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Cyclonic Storm at Grafton. a Max Killed by Lightning

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

A terrific thunderstorm passed over Grafton district on Tuesday afternoon. It was accompanied by heavy hail, which cut down the crops,…

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Disastrous Cyclone

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 4

The damage to crops done, by the Cuban cyclone is estimated at £2,000,000…

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Disastrous Cyclone. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 8

A cyclone has occurred in Cuba. Great damage was done, and many people were killed. The United States troops were forced…

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Cyclone in Cuba

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1906 · page 4

A disastrous cyclone has been experienced in Cuba. Many people were killed, and great damage was done. The…

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Cyclonic Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 4

ONE of the heaviest storms that has visited the district for many years was experienced at Blair Hill and in its vicinity on Monday afternoon. The gale blew with hurricane force and was…

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Disastrous Storms

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 November 1906 · page 4

Yesterday's storm was very severe in several districts. Hailstones at Bingara formed six inches deep. Windows were broken…

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Heavy Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 4

A storm, accompanied by a terrific gale, passed over Murwillumbah yesterday. Houses and dairies were unroofed, and trees blown down…

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Floods in Ceylon

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 6

Advices by the R.M.S. Moldavia from Ceylon report devastating floods in the law country around Colombo and…

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Cyclone

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 November 1906 · page 4

A destructive cyclone swept over Mogara, West Australia, on Saturday night. Dwellings were levelled in all directions, and the Miners Institute…

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Cyclone

Guyra Argus · Thursday 6 December 1906 · page 2

A destructive cyclone struck the vicinity of the Guyra railway station yesterday afternoon and [?]ked a shed opposite Mr Whyburn's residence. Sheets of corrugated…

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Cablegrams. London Wool Sales. Prices well maintained. Floods in Arizona

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 8 December 1906 · page 2

Disastrous floods hare occurred in Arizona, 50 persons being drowned. ANOTHER LOAN. Premier Carrnthers is issuing a local loan…

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Storm in a Teacup. the French Telegraph Boy

The Uralla News · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 3

The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" narrates the followlong story:— Gontini, aged nineteen, a telegraph…

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[?] in a single thunderstorm. [?]Fting Extraordinary. [?]ting [?] New York [?] Russell, a

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

[?] sci[?]ty woman, for Tarrytown, near New York, was camping out recently, and while cooking with an alcohol stove it exploded. The lower part of her body was…

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