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Floods & storms, 1907

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A Cyclone in Victoria

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 2

Bairnsdale (Victoria) was struck by a cyclone on Saturday afternoon. Business places and private residence were damaged…

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Cyclone at Bairnsdale

Tumbarumba Times · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 2

Bairnsdale, Victoria, was struck by a cyclone on Saturday afternoon. Business places and private residences…

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Wheat Ship in Violent Gales. Second Officer Drowned

The Worker · Thursday 25 April 1907 · page 15

The Norwegian ship, Prince George, bound from Tort Pirie (S.A.) to the English Channel with 25,248 bags of wheat, was towed into Port Jackson on Wednesday…

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Telegrams. To-day's Sydney, Tuesday. Great Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 2

A violent thunderstorm passed over the city yesterday afternoon, accompained by a severe squall, the wind attaining a velocity of nearly seventy…

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Very Latest Gales

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 2

Boisterous weather commenced last evening, and continued throughout the night, and this morning there was a heavy sea' and ships were unable to…

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Lightning Storm. Miraculous Escape at Littledale

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 2

On Monday morning at Mr. N. M. Miller's Littledale, a boy named Constantino, with a number of draught horses, took, shelter from a storm under a large tree, and they had only…

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Great Gales on the Coast a Wild Night. Shipping Impeded. Steamer Ashore. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 2

Fierce gales, accompanied by heavy seas, are raging on the coast. Many vessels werre compelled to return to port, while others are…

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Mining Disaster a Mine Flooded. Two Men Drowned Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 May 1907 · page 3

While sinking operations were in progress at the Adelaide Reef mine, at Egastown at midnight on Tuesday Henry Thompson and Robert Robinson…

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The Mutiny. Fifty Years Ago. I. the Storm Bursts

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 4

It is now just half a century since the outbreak of the great revolt which shook British rule in India to its very foundations, and stirred the Empire to…

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Drowned in Flooded Mine

The Worker · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 13

Two men were drowned shortly after midnight of May 21 at the Adelaide Gold Mines, situated about a mile from Eganstown, Daylesford district (V.). Henry Thompson…

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The Mutiny. Fifty Years Ago Ii. the Storm at Its Height

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

When the first blast of the mutiny struck India the position at Cawnpore gave rise to the gravest auxiety. Situated on the Gauges, which constitutes…

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Storm at Adel0ng. the Methodist Parsonage Damaged. Adelong

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1907 · page 3

THERE was a severe storm at six o'clock on Sunday morning. Much damage was done to the Methodist personage, which suffered severely…

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Cyclone

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 2

A cyclone struck Tall[?]ang, in the Gu[?] country, and [?] a number of trees and blew the assembly hall down; a shed of…

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A Human Bell. Heard Above All Storms

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 4

Marakech, the town in Morocco which suddenly sprang into notriety through its persecution of Europeans. has…

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Balloon Race in a Thunderstorm

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

Several balloons, which ascended for a race during a heavy thunderstorm from Ranelagh to London, narrowly escaped destruction. One aeronaut…

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The Destruction of Timber. Effects on Rainfall and Running Streams. No. 11. Old Time Floods

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1907 · page 5

In reading over the former article on this subject (which was written hurriedly), I see I omitted to state that the year the Murrumbidgee River…

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Only a Passing Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 2

Admiral Kamamosi states that the passing storm between Japan and the United States will disappear in the waters of the Pacific. Much depended…

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A Barque Wrecked Caught in a Storm. Trials of Crew. Wellington (N.z.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 2

The barque Woollahra, which left Wellington yesterday for Sydney, has gone ashore at Cape Terawhitie. She struck a line of rocks 300 yards off the…

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Heavy Gale

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

A heavy gale was experienced in various parts of the colony. Great damage was done at Greymouth, windows being smashed, verandahs…

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Fires on a Mail Steamer. Outbreak on Ville De La Ciotat. No 4 Hold Flooded. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 1 August 1907 · page 3

The fire which broke out late on Monday night on board the French mailboat Ville de la Ciotat. lying at Circular Quay, has been subdued. The damage…

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