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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

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Severe Storm. Strikes Port Macquarie

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 8

One of the worst storms ever experienced in Port Macquarie, so far as thunder and Lightning are concerned, occurred on Saturday night (says…

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Cyclone at Madagasca

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 2

Capetown cables of Monday report a cyclone on each coast of Madagasca, accompanied by a tidal wave, have completely devastated Port Louis,…

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Cyclone and Tidal Wave Great Death Roll Only Two Buildings Standing CAPETOWN

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 1

Late in sage from Port Louis on the coast of Madagasgar state that while the death roll of 500 in the cyclone and [?] wave is slightly…

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Argentine Floods Eleven Persons Drowned VANCOUVER

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 1

A message from Janjui, Argentine, states that 11 persons are known to be dead as a result of record breaking floods and torrential rains in this…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Floods in Argentine

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 2

A message from Junjui (Argentine) states that eleven persons are known to be dead owing to record-breaking floods and torrential rains in this…

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Floods and A'quake. Big Death Roll Reported. Japan Again Has Mild 'Quake Shocks. (Reuter). Capetown

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 4

A cyclone on the East Coast of Madagascar, accompanied by a tidal wave, completely devastated Port Louis, sinking all manner of craft on the harbour. The death roll is stated to be five hundred, though this…

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Blacks and Floods

The Uralla Times · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 4

A remarkable feature of the Queensland floods was the drowning of several aborigines. Such a happening to the clans of Murri was…

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Cyclone and Flood An Ordeal For Cairns

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 5

Mr. C. Johnson, a son of Mr. R. Johnson, of Atherton Tablelands, in the Cairns district, and late of Glen Innes, writes graphically of the…

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Storm in City Train Services Disorganised SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 1

A heavy storm broke over the metropolitan area last night accompanied by vivid lightning and violent claps of thunder. The suburban…

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Argentine Floods Twenty Drowned Beunos Ayres

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 1

Twenty are know to be dead, with many families homeless and enormous property damage in the province of J[?]ing as a result of the…

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£250,000 Damage Floods in North Queensland Great Railway Destruction BRISBANE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 1

The Minister for ?[?]Labor and Industry (Mr David Gl[?]dson), who returned to Brisbane from Townsville, said that the view was expressed in…

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Floods and Cyclones. Big Deficit on Queensland Railways. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 March 1927 · page 6

Owing to the drought, floods, and Northern cyclone (Queensland), railways are expected to show a deficit of £2,000,000 this year…

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Sequel to Cyclone Tragedy In The Harbor CAIRNS

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 1

A shocking fatality occurred here yesterday, when an explosion of acetylene gas in a floating buoy which was being filled with carbide beside…

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FLOODS! Big Rains in W.A. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 1

Heavy floods are reported from Western Australia. Rivers in the north-west are flooded and the railway near Wongan is submerged…

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W.A. Floods Man's Body Recovered Mate Finds Refuge In Tree PERTH

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 1

When the flood Waters subsided at Murchison the body of William Heron was found. His companion, George Woodley, said that when the flood…

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Treed by Flood. Man Rescued in Time

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1927 · page 1

Perth.—When flood waters subsided at Murchison, the body of William Heron was found. His companion, George Woodless…

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Floods in U.S.A. Seven People Drowned Kansas City, (U.s.)

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 1

Storms brought from two to five inches of rain in the south west, flooding hundreds of small streams at Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma…

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Floods Likely

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 1

The State Meterologist. Mr. Mares, has issued the following special forecast. Tropical disturbances between…

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North Queensland Floods Traffic Held Up BRISBANE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 1

Traffic has been held up in North Queensland by floods. The Railway Department was advised this morning that Mulgrave River was six[?]…

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Wiped Out. Three Families. Pitiable Flood Tragedy. One Survivor

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 7

The pitiful story of a tragedy which befel three families who took refuge in a house at Bemeerside, near Ingham (Q.), the property of Guiseppe…

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