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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1911

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Sunday's Storm

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 2

An exceptional heavy storm, accompanied by vivid lightning and loud peals of thunder, passed over the district soon, after lunch time on…

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Heavy Rain in the City. Floods Predicted Inland Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

Heavy rate [?] to fall in the city last night, and [?] continues. A flood in predicted inland owing…

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Destructive Cyclone. a Town Blown to Pieces. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

It is removed that [?] township has been blows to places by a cycloce…

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Floods in Queensland Great Loss of Stock. Two Towns Isolated. Brisbane

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

Foods continue at [?] Heavy losses in sheep and calts are reported through the Darling Downs country, which is a veritable…

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Famine and Flood. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

Confirmatory reports from Shang bat of the famine show that hundreds of Tillages were swept by the floods at Ashut Twenty-three inches…

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Electrocuted During a Storm

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 2

During a violent thunderstorm at Shepparton, (Vic.) last week a man of over sixty, Joseph Colgan, took refuge under a big elm. There was a…

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Floods Feared. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 2

Although storm conditions are abating in Victoria, floods are feared in several districts as a result of the heavy rains…

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The Recent Floods

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 2

The damage caused by the recent floods in the Windsor district is estimated at £10,000 and at Bairnsdale Victoria, large areas of maize crops…

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Floods at Windsor

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 4

D[?] by recent foods in [?] [?] is estimated [?] above [?]…

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Terrific Hail and Thunderstorm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thousands of poundsworth of damage has resulted from the terrific hail and thunderstorm which passed over Geelong, Victoria, on Tuesday…

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Saturday's Storm

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 2

A terrific storm passed over the district on Saturday afternoon last, durn which the rain descended in to: r n'.s for some two or three…

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Heavy Rain.—Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday Night. —Heavy rain continues, and floods are reported in several of the low-tying suburbs…

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SYDNEY, Thursday. Serious Floods

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 27 January 1911 · page 5

[?] floods are reported from Augustus Downs, Queensland. Miles of country is submerged. One stock-man has been drowned…

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Electic Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

A PARTY of tourists who ascended "the horn" of Mount Buffalo had a thrilling experience during a thunderstorm. With the cessation of the first…

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Floods in the West. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 3 February 1911 · page 4

Exceptionally heavy rains and floods have been experienced in the far West Many people bed narrow, tecepea…

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In a Storm Off Chili. a Now South Wales Lad's Fight for Life

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 6 February 1911 · page 5

Mr. Eric Cox--son of Mrs. J. Cox, of Grafton, has been having another exciting time. As we stated early in the year, although still little more than a…

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Bundaberg Flooded. Brisbane

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 7 February 1911 · page 5

The flood waters at Bundaberg have submerged the wharfs, and commenced to spread over the lowlying portion of the town…

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Floods in Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 7 February 1911 · page 5

Melbourne yesterday experienced a torrential downpour, and in a few minutes almost every street in the city and suburbs were submerged…

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Floods

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 February 1911 · page 7

Further particulars of the floods in Queensland show that a mail contractor named Tincknell and another [?] were drowned while crossing a…

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Floods in Queensland. Towns Being Isolated

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 6

The latest advices to hand show that rains are continning in the Western, Central and Northern districts of Queensland, and the risers…

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