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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

122 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 7

Long Nervous Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 3

[?] ever wa[?] a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little [?] white cotton thread. How can so contemptible a…

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Heavy Rain and Floods

The Junee Democrat · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 2

THE rainy conditions noted in last issue continued till Thursday night. Steady rain commenced to fall on Tuesday night last and continued without [?]…

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Serious Flood in the Murrumbidgee Heavy Rainfall. Telegraph Lines Down. Culverts Washed Away. Heavy Fall of Snow. a Tremendous Body of Water

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 3

What will probably prove to be the most serious flood ever known in Gundagai is now raging in the Murrumbidgee. As nearly all the…

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The Coming Flood

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 3

Yesterday morning the news was telegraphed to the local post office that a big flood was reported from Yass. The river there at 9 a.m. yesterday morning was at…

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The Storms

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 12

Yesterday's rainfall extended all over the colony. Heavy floods are reported from several districts especially the Nepean…

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A Long Nervous Storm

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 8

If yon ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little ship of wet, white cotton thread. How can so contemptible…

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The Flood. Waters Invade the Town. Low-lying Parts Submerged. North Wagga Cut Off

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

THE dread of a flood, with its fell attendants of loss, discomfort, and misery, is at all times sufficiant to force all concerns of ordinary every day importance into the…

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Another Flood the Biggest for Years. Several Narrow Escapes. 33 Ft. Above Summer Level. the Flat Again Covered

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 3

ON Tuesday evening heavy rain began to fall in Gundagai and continued all day Wednesday and throughout Wednesday night. Op till 9 a.m. on…

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The Flood in the Murrumbidgee. River Falling at Gundagai. Maximum Height, 33Ft. 6In. Heavy Loss of Stock. Further Rise Feared. Gundagai, Friday, 1.10 p.m

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

The River reached its maximum height of 83ft 6in above summer level early this morning and has now fallen 2ft. Jugiong advices that the river rose to 34ft…

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About Floods

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 7

In these richly endowed districts of New South Wales, and it must be claimed that the colony possesses no fairer heritage than the fert[?] plains and uplands of…

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The Flood. Greatest Heighht 32Ft 9In. Less Serious Than Expected. Damage to Town Streets. Narrow Escape From Drowning

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

"IT'S bad enough, but it might have been a great deal worse," was the general comment on Saturday morning, when it was possible to gauge to some extent the damage wrought…

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Flood Relief Fund

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

Enquiries from the Mayor yesterday revealed the fact that there in a sum of £501 in the Bank of New South Wales to the credit of the Flood Relief Fund. The…

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Incidents of the Flood

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

Very little of an exciting character occurred throughout the period when the flood was at its height. This was due to the fact that ample warning had been given…

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Late Wires. Advices From the Metropolis. Sydney, Monday, 6 p.m. the Floods

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

About 150 families are temporarily homeless as a result of the Hawkesbury flood. They are principally farmers in the low-lands of Windsor,…

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The Murrumbidgee Flood. a Magnificent Sight. Fences Destroyed in All. Quarters. Disaster. on All' Sides. How the Cattle Were Res. Cued. Wagaa Inundated

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

As wan anticipated by us, of view of the reports to band from upriver stations of the swollen condition of all the branches conductiug into the…

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Big Flood at Yass

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

Yam, Thursday.—The flood,is now at its height, and the traffic bridge is not approachable from South Yass, communication being conducted by the railway…

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The Flood. Wagga Under Water Heavy Damage to Property

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

Water, water everywhere, right and left. North, South, East and West water was in possession. Such has been What Wagga has experienced during the past three says,…

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The Government and the Flood

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

The visitation of what properly can be termed floods happily occur at pretty long intervals in Wagga, being separated usually by a period of ten…

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The Flood in the Murray. Albury

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 4

The rise in the Murray has not been, so great as was anticipated. To-day the river is running a banker ,but is stationary, and it does not appear likely that…

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