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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1903

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Cablegrams. Disastrous Floods. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1903 · page 4

Disastrous floods are reported from Kansas (U.S. America). There has been a heavy loss of life, especially at North Topeka, and an immense…

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The Coastal Gales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 4

The gale along the coast which has caused so much damage to shipping is abating, but floods are threatening many of the northern districts. Considerable anxiety is evinced at the non arrival…

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Terrible disaster in Kansas. Fire and Flood

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 3

Disastrous floods have occurred in Kansas (U.S. America). There has been a heavy loss of life, especially in North Topeka, and immense destruction of property…

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Floods on the North Coast

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

Reports are arriving of considerable damage by floods in the north coast districts…

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Fires and Floods in America

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 5

Great forest fires are raging in Nova Scotia and Maine. At Topeka(U.S.A.) 200 children flood-bound in the schoolhouse since Friday last were…

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Flood Adventure. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 3

Some exciting adventures are reported in connection with the floods in the Warialda district. One man spent 18 hours in the fork of a tree before he…

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Flood Bound. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 3

Steam launches rescued 200 starring children at Top[?]ka. They had been flood bound…

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Fire and Flood

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 6

Disastrous floods have occurred in Kansas (U. S. America). There has been a heavy loss of life, especially in North Topeka, and immense…

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Caught by the Flood

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 4

"If only it was not quito so near the river, George," Mrs. Roden said, in answer to the husband's inquiries as to how she liked the house they had taken…

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Floods in America. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1903 · page 3

A torrent of water 25 feet deep and 100ft wide burst over the Illinois Central Railway embankment, flooding the southern half of Eastern St. Louis,…

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Ship in a Gale

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 June 1903 · page 2

The Ship Aldergrove, which has just arrived from Buenos Ayres, wheat laden, encountered fearful weather a couple of weeks ago, and sprung a leak, and was only kept…

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A Dust-storm Interferes with Dr. McCARTHY'S Rain Making

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 2

A. terrific duststorm passed over Broken Hill yesterday interfering with Dr. McCarthy's rain making operations. The latter, who is sangauine of…

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Telegraphic Intelligence Floods in Victoria. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 18 July 1903 · page 4

Big floods are resulting from the recent heavy rain in Victoria, and settlers in many parte are having a trying time…

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Floods in Victoria

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 July 1903 · page 2

Floods in the Wimmera district, Victoria, continue. Fifty families have been removed from low-lying parts. Samuel Whitemore was drowned while attempting to cross a…

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Not Expecting a Flood

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 July 1903 · page 2

AN old lady recently bargained with a cabman standing outside Colchester railway station to take her into the town. The sum being agreed upon, the dame…

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Heavy Rain in London. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1903 · page 6

Three inches of rain has fallen in London during the past 24 hours. Great damage was done in the valley of the Thames…

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Heavy Rain and Gales

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 August 1903 · page 2

Heavy rain fell yesterday and the low lands in some suburbs were flooded. The Observatory reports that the rain was confined to the southern districts. A heavy…

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Not Expecting a Flood

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 August 1903 · page 4

An old lady recently bargained with a cabman standing outside Colchester railway station to take her into town. The sum being agreed upon, the…

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Severe Storms off the British Coast

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 September 1903 · page 3

A fierce gale raged towards the end of last week in Great Britain. The cost is strown with wreckage, and there are many fatalities. It played havoc with the crops, delayed shipping,…

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The Rainfall Castlereagh in Flood

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 22 September 1903 · page 2

The best rain recorded for many years fell over the greater portion of the State last week and it may now safely be asserted has put an end to the drought. The…

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