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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
291 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 15
The Barwon and Namon rivers at Walgett havo risen 42 feet and 82 feet respectively, and both are still rising. The water is now about 50 yards from the Post Office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The floods have closed the Renault motor car works at Billancourst. and 2500 men are thereby out of work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The River Seine is swollen to double its usual width, and has risen another eighteen feet. Hundreds of thousands of Parisians are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Both the Barwon and Namoi Rivers continue to rise. At Walgett miles of country are deeply submerged. The water in many cases is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE 1900 the world has produced more gold than in the three and a—half centuries from the discovery of America to the discovery of gold in California…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further particulars of the floods in the west show that Yarradool station, 04 miles from Walgett, passed through tho worst feature of tho flood without losing a single…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →There is [?]ft. of water in the town of Alfort, France owing to the rise in the River Marne. Three thousand of the population have now been rescued, but 10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday the flood waters which have caused widespread devastation right through from Tamworth, Gunnedah, and Narrabri had not reached Walgett, From…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A heavy gale is raging along the north coast of Queensland. All pleasure craft along the esplanded at Cair[?]s were swamped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Department have 8000 men at work repairing the railway lines, but permanent restoration will take some weeks to accomplish…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Walgett is surrounded by flood waters. and many families have been flooded out of their homes, and are taking refuge in public buildings. Unless something…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Walgett is safe from inundation, the water being now stationary, but effectually preventing ordinary communication, except by telegraph, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rivers Seine and Mare are now suns[?]ing. The dome and arches of the Orleans railway at Paris have collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported that during the hailstorm on Friday evening blocts of ice over 1lb in weight fell at Aberdeen, near Muswellbrook, and crushed through galvanised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The waters of the Barwon and Namoi Rivers are fulling at Walgett. Yesterday a man named Williams and his son, from Lightning Ridge, after…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Word was received in Sydney last night of a terrific cyclone and rain storm at Brewarrina, by which portions of the town were wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great tempest has swept the English Channel. The destroyer Eden broke her moorings and was stranded at Dover. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The special feature of the present flood is the amazing suddenness with which it reached its present proportions. Former inundations took several weeks or a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Barwon River has fallen two inches and the Namoi three inches at Walgett during the past 24 hours. The Chinese, whose gardens were deeply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The French Senate has adopted a measure extending the date of payment of bills falling due in flooded districts. It is estimated that 100,000 people have…
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