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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1911

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Rain and Gale. Damage in Queensland. Many Washaways. Brisbane

Northern Star · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 3

Though the rain has now cleared away at Cairns, Queensland, the water is 18 feet over, the Mulgrave bridge and 16 feet over the Bevana bridge. On the Cairns…

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Tuckian Flood Escafe

Northern Star · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 2

A meeting of the canvassers who were appointed to obtain signatures to the petition against the construction of the above work was held at Coraki on Saturday…

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Terrific Storms. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 9

Terrific thunderstorms visited the A[?]long and Corowa' districts yesterday, uprooting trees, wrecking buildings and levelling, the crops to the ground, the amount…

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Heavy Gales Reported. Vancouver

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

A Heavy gale is blowing on the Pacific coast, and telegraphic and railway communication with some cities is interrupted. Damage to shipping is also repocted…

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Paris Floods Subsided. Paris

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 5

The floods in the River Seine have subsided, and steamboat traffic has been resumed…

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Missionary Deported. Trouble in Northern Solomons. the Calm Before the Storm

Northern Star · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 3

The Rev. B. Danks, general secretary of the Methodist Mission, said, some days ago, that so far as the Methodist body was concerned he knew of only one case…

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South African Flood

Northern Star · Saturday 14 January 1911 · page 9

The Vaal River is flooded at Standeration, and two hotles and other building have been swept away. The damage is estimated at£30,000…

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Storms in Spain. Trains Snowed Up, Madrid

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 3

Assistance has been sent to Ottero, near Segovia, to rescue a snowed-up trainfull of passengers who are without food. There are many snowed trains in the…

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Floods Threatened at Bega. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 3

Heavy rain has fallen in the Bega district, over 12 inches being registered. A big flood is threatened by the rapid rise in the creeks, which has resulted from…

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The Richmond Breakwater. Storm Moves the Wall

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 5

AS an instance of the severity of the storm which was raging on the coast on Thursday, we (Ballina "Beacon") might mention that when the men…

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Damage by the Floods. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 5

Further details of the havoc wrought by the floods in the Windsor district show the damage exceeds £15,000…

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Storm in Melbourne. Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 3

A heavy storm occurred in Melbourne yesterday afternoon, and the fire engines had to be engaged for pumping water out of the basements of several buildings…

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The Tuckian Flood Escape

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 4

A very peculiar position has arisen in connection with the above project, and one that places the local committee in a decided quandary. It will be…

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Telegraphic News. Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

As predicted yesterday, the Mitchell River at Bairnsdale, Victoria, is again in flood and over three feet higher than on Sunday. The amount of damage done is…

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Floods in Oregon. Wancouver, Wednesday Evening

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

Heavy rain is causing disastrous floods in Oregon State…

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A Tweed Storm. Murwillumbah Streets Floode[?]. Horse Killed by Lightning. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 9

After several days of intense heat a terrific storm, accompanied by heavy thunder and vivid lightning, broke over the town at 11 o'clock last night. The rain was…

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A Narrow Escape. Washed Away in Flooded Creek. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 9

Thin morning a man named Fitzgerald, a postal official from Sydney, together with his wife, a boy, and another lady, were washed away in attempting to cross…

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Floods in America. Portland (Oregon)

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 9

The town of Portland is isolated owing to big floods…

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Terrific Storm on the Tweed

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 2

After several days of intense heal a terrific storm, accompanied by heavy thunder and vivid lightning, broke over Murwillumbah at 11 o'clock last Thursday…

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Great Floods at Berry

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 3

THE " S. M. Herald " special correspondent, who was in the Berry district, reports that the scene during and after the storm of "Wednesday and…

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