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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1909

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Serious Floods

The Inverell Times · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 2

Serious floods have occurred at Bedigo, Ballarat aud western districts Victoria. Mrs. Ferry, wife of the manager of Barwon Park Estate and…

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Telegrams Sydney, Friday. Floods in Victoria. Extensive Damage. Train in River

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 4

Serious floods have occurred at Bendigo, Ballarat, and in the western districts of Victoria. Mrs. Terry, wife of the manager of…

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Floods. Sydney

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1909 · page 2

Serious floods harp occurred in Bendigo, Ballarat, and the western districts of Victoria. Mrs. Ferry, wife of the manager of Barwon Park Estate,…

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Floods in the Southern State. Loss of Life and Great Destruction of Property. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 5

The floods in Victoria are the most serious since 1870. Immense areas are submerged, and railway bridges and embankments…

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Floods in Victoria

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 7

The floods in Victoria continuo to do much damage. Several narrow escapes from drowning is reported…

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Victorian Flood Incidents

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 5

There seen to have been many exciting incidents in connection. with the Hoods in Viotoria daring the past few days…

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Victorian Floods

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 4

The floods in Victoria continue to do much damage. Several narrow escapes from drowning have been reported…

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The Victorian Floods. Relief to Sufferers. Melbourne

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

THE Victorian Government has decided to give immediate relief to the sufferers by the floods. About 1100 persons are homeless at…

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Victorian Floods. Funeral Under Difficulties

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 4

Dimboola to Rainbow and Warracknabeal to Hopetoun are the only railway lines remaining interrupted. Amongst the poor families at…

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Floods

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 5

Great floods are reported from northern Mexico. Eight hundred people perished in the city of Monterey…

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Mine Flooded

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 5

Twenty-six miners were drowned by the flooding of a mine in Poland…

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[?] E Egrams. Ydney. Tuesday. V[?]rian Floods

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 5

Althoughke floods have subsided in the greaterrt of Victoria the river is. still rismat Koondrook, and the' town is threbned…

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Floods in Mexico Enormous Damage to Property. Hundreds Lives Lost. London

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 3

GREAT floods have occurred in Northern Mexico, 800 people have perished. At the city of Monteroy fifteen thousand people are homeless. The damage to the…

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The Mexican Floods

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 4

Reuter's Agency report that in consequence of the floods at Montergy, 1200 persons lost their lives, sod 16,000 were rendered homeless…

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Floods In Victoria. a Determined Bbide

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1909 · page 7

Rain toll heavily i victoria on Tuesday, and farther reports jot. floods in the northerrn districts were received…

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The Mexican Floods

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1909 · page 2

Terrible floods caused by rains and the overflow of rivers, have occurred in Northern Mexico. Reuter's correspondent states that at Monterey,…

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Cyclone

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 September 1909 · page 2

A cyclone has swept over Sicily 3000 houses were destroyed and sixty people entombed, many injured and miles of country denuded of vegetation…

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Brief Mention. Heavy Thunderstorms

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 2

72 points of rain since last issue. Empire Congress sitting in Sydney, School of Arts tennis team visits Deepwater to-morrow…

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Storm at Grafton

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 8

A cyclone storm passed over Grafton yesterday. Many of the hailstones were 7 inches by 5, and did a considerable amount of damage to…

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Terrific Storm at Grafton

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 2

On Thursday last Grafton was visited by a storm which raged with the fury of a cyclone, a large amount of damage resulting to…

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