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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1909

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Great Floods in Europe

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 3

EXTRAORDINARY floods have occurred in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Tyrol, owing to the sudden melting of the snows…

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Floods in Europe Subsiding. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 5

The ice floes on the River Elbe at Dresden are now melting and all danger is past. The floods in some of the western…

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Sensational Experience. a Scow in a Storm. Captain Washed Overboard. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 3

The scow Maroro has returned to port. It left Newccastle on Wednesday with a cargo of coal for Wanganni (N. Z.), On Friday morning the vessel ran into a very…

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Great Cyclone Near Tamworth. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 3

A terrific cyclone passed over Nemingha —in the Tamworth district—yesterday, tearing up glant forest trees, unrooling houses, and playing havoe generally…

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A Disastrous Cyclone

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 4

A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over Nemingha on Tuesday, tearing up gigantic trees, unroofing houses, and playing havoc generally. Sheets of iron from…

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Cyclonic Storm. Buildings Blown Down. Man Killed by Llighting. Brisane

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 February 1909 · page 3

At Thargomindah (Q.) a terrific thunderstorm burst over the town on Friday night. The storm was accompanied by a…

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Heavy Storm at Yass. Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 3

A heavy storm passed over Yass yesterday. All the low-lyings lands were subemerged, and the A.J.S. Bank and Bank of N.S.W…

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The Coming Deluge

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

Weather prophets predict heavy rains and floods during March, with tempestuous weather. By way of making provision for the rainy season, should it visit us, lay in…

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That Deluge

Northern Star · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 2

The promised deluge of the North Coast still hovers over us, and it behoves everybody to make provision for the downpour. Hague and Mason's macintoshes and…

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The Coming Deluge

Northern Star · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 2

Weather prophets predict heavy rains and floods during March, with tempestuous weather. By way of making provision for the rainy season, should It visit us, lay in…

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Terrific Storm Mighty Hushing Torrents. People Take Refuge in Trees. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 3

A terrific, storm occurred at the Nondewar Mountains, about twenty miles from Narrabri, Torrents of water washed down the…

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Floods Predicted

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 4

MR. J. H. GIDDOES sends the following warning from Melbourne:— Kindly permit me, through your columns, to warn residents of…

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Destructive Storm. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 5

There was a tremendous storm at Goulburn last night. A great deal of damage was done to private property. Miles of fencing were swept awyay, and…

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TELEGRAPHIC Ogg's Cyclonic Storms. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 7

FURTHER particulars of the heavy cyclonic storms that swept over West Australian a couple of days ago show that at Northam a huge wave, 200 yards wide, rushed down upon the town…

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Snow Storms Interfere. London

Northern Star · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 7

A violent snow storm lit Washington necessitated the swearing-in of the Seanate in Chambers instead of outside the…

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Heavy Storm at Narrabri

Northern Star · Monday 8 March 1909 · page 3

Reports are to hand of a terrible storm which occurred in the mountains, about 20 miles to the cast of the town. It is estimated that more than six inches fell…

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In a Queensland Storm

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1909 · page 2

MR. M[?] Central…

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Floods In Fiji

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 6

THE country districts in Fiji have sustained serious losses to crops through very heavy floods. A planter on the Rewa reported that the river…

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An Incident of the Great Gundagai Flood

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 3

The "S. M. Herald" says:—Mr. Edward Favene Turnbull, son of the late Mr. H. M. Turnbull, the well-known explorer, died on Tuesday at Albury. His death recalls…

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Ruin and Storm

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1909 · page 2

ON Friday [?] a heavy storm passed over the district from the southward [?] of W[?] and South [?] by a phenome[?] fall of [?]…

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