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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1905

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The Herald of the Storm. a Symbolic Poem

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 6

Over gloomy [?] stretenes winds have gathered angry storm—clouds, And between the clouds and waters Darts, like a black fork of lightning,…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Heavy Rain. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 3

Heavy rain fell in and around the city during last night and this morning. At Hurstville and the neighbouring districts 9 inches fell between…

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Remarkable Storms. Tornado in Perth. Serious Damage Done

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 3

A tornado o[?] unusual violence and mysterious origin paused over Perth shortly after half-past 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning, leaving…

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Russian Optimism. Silence Before the Storm, the Populace Denied the Truth, London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 2

The Commandant of Vladivostock on Monday telegraphed the news of the disaster to the Baltic fleet to the Czar. The Czar, after consulting the Imperial…

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Floods In Tasmania. Railway Traffic Interrupted

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

A Hobart wire of Wednesday says.—This is the fifth day of almost incessant rain, and the floods everywhere are the worst for many years. Railway traffic between…

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Floods in Tasmania

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 2

Floods in Tasmania continue. Two fatalities have occurred, and large lasses in stock are reported. Great damage has been done the railways…

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Fire and Flood. a Bush Experience

The Worker · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 8

Midsummer night pressed heavily upon the bush. The moon, a red eye, weeping blood, glared on the horizon, and disappeared as though fiery lids had closed upon…

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Telegraphic News. General Cables. a New York Railway Flooded. London, June 14

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 2

The New York Tube Railway was flooded, and the passengers had to wade through four feet of water in making their exit from the cars…

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Drowned in the Flood

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 2

The heavy rains and consequent floods have been responsible for on fatality. On Thursday Mr. David Chency, aged 23 years, who had been rabbiting…

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Struck by LightDiug Fatal Result of Thursday's Storm

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 28 June 1905 · page 2

Whilst on Thursday night, lighting was flashing and thunder crashing, a young man--one who was sober, in- dudrious, and the chief support of his,…

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Big Flood in Tumut River

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 3

The unprecedently wet season (at least for 17 years) that we have experienced, showed its dire effect upon us yesterday. On Sunday scudding clouds from early morn till…

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Tumut Flood in the Tumut River

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 2

A flood in our river, at one rime a common occurrence happening several times every year, became quite a novelty, there having been only what…

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The Present Flood

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 2

Its many years since such a flood appeared in the district, and the immense amount of water that has come during the present rainy season naturally…

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Heavy Floods. Gundagai Flats Covered. Tumut River a Wild Torrent

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1905 · page 2

THE heavy ruins on Saturday night caused all mountain streams to run. On Sunday morning the Gilmore Creek burst over its banks at Tumut…

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Floods in the South. Tumut Threatened. Rescue Boats at Work. Phenomenal Rain at Kiandra. the Murrumbidgee Rising. Tumut

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

A sensational flood is occurring in the Tumut River. This morning 234 points of rain fell. The river registers 13½ft., the highest known for…

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Floods on the Murray. Exciting Scenes. Woman and Six Children Saved by a Horseman. Wodonga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

The biggest flood for the past twenty yours in this vicinity occurred here yesterday. Following the almost continuously wet weather of the past five…

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Floods in Victoria. Goulburn River Two Wide. Rumoured Loss of Life. (By Telegraph.) MELBOURNE

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

Further reports of disastrone floods are to hand. The Goulburn River is rising rapidly. and is now two miles wide…

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Flats Flooded

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

All the rival flats are, of course, flooded, the water in many places being spread over large areas and extending goodly distances from the river's corse…

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Murrumbidgee in Flood. Wagga, 2 a.m.; 25ft. 11in

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee still displays aggressiveness. There has been a steady rise during the past two days, which continues to cause watchfulness on the…

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Flood at Wodonga. Exciting Rescues. Women and Six Children Saved by a Horseman. Rabbit Trapper's Plight

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 4

The biggest flood for the past twenty years in the vicinity occurred at Wodonga on Sunday. Following the almost continuously wet weather of the past five…

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