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Floods & storms, 1910

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Those Awful Floods. The Plight of Walgett. The Town may be Wiped Out SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

The flood waters are racing upon Walgett, and it is expected they will reach there to-day. The greater part of the country is…

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The Floods Walgett and Brewarrina. Families Driven Out. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

Brewarrina is preparing for the worst. Walgett is now surrounded by the flood waters. Twenty families are flooded out of their homes and are…

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Before the Storm

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1910 · page 4

The w[?]less day was heavy with unrest. As though the troubled summer, swooning, dreamed…

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The Big Floods

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1910 · page 2

Gangs of railway men are now repairing the washed-away railway lines in the North. Between Emerald Hill and…

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France in Flood. Half the Country Submerged Seine Bi[?]dges Threatened. Much Property Swept Away. London, Jan. 26

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1910 · page 2

The floods in France have greatly extended. The Paris correspondent of the "Times" writes that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that nearly…

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The Floods Miles of Country Submerged Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1910 · page 2

Both the rivers continue to rise at Walgett. Miles of country are deeply submerged. The water in many places is close to the town. The extent…

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After the Flood

The Worker · Thursday 27 January 1910 · page 19

Tho damage caused by the flood at Narrabri was just as widespread and destructive as that caused at Tamworth. Tamworth was isolated from Narrabri on…

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The Later Floods

The Worker · Thursday 27 January 1910 · page 19

As anticipated, Walgett. was caught by the flood waters from the rising Barwon and Namoi rivers. On Monday evening the flood had isolated the town into an…

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Studs in the Flooded Districts

The Worker · Thursday 27 January 1910 · page 17

Studmasters did not escape altogether from the effects of the recent flode in New South Wales. Those in the Moree district; were visited…

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Floods in France

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 2

T radio on the Paris-Orleans railway has been suspended airing to floods…

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Re Floods Relief and Assistance. [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 2

Sir,—On behalf of our farmers and settlers in the flood afflicted districts, doubtless many of your readers have read of the disasters which…

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Today's Cablegrams. London. Great Floods in France

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 2

Thousands of people were rescued from the floods in the eastern suburbs of Paris yesterday, and 600 are still clinging to the submerged dwellings…

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Great Storm. Two Men Struck by Lightning. Haystack Burnt Out

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 2

Wagga was the centre of the severe storm which passed over the southern portion of the State during Thursday evening and yesterday morning. The…

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Storm at Colamon. Two Inches of Rain in Twenty Minutes. Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 2

Thursday was one of the most trying days this year. The glass ran up to 108, and as evening came on the clouds began to gather from the…

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The Floods. Rivers Falling. a Swim for Life. All Night in a Tree. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 2

The Barwon and Namoi rivers are falling at Walgett. A man named Williams and his son, from Lightning Ridge, after walking over ten miles of…

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Floods in France Fever Epidemic Feared. Damage Forty Millions Sterling. London, Jan. 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 2

Snow-falls continue to swell the volume of the Seine. Water is pouring over the parapets and embankments, and a lake which is forming has…

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Heavy Storm

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 5

A heavy storm occurred at Glenariff, near Nyngan, when 5 miles of railway fence was blown down and washed away A number of iron telegraph poles were bent…

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Destructive Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

At storm of wind, bail, and rain visited, Wallendbeen last week, and the wind lifted the roof off Mr. G, F. Sackett's fine large store, 80 by 40…

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A Town Wrecked. Cyclone at Brewarrina. Damages Estimated at £15,000. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

The town of Brewarrina, situated in the north-west, on the Darling, has been partially wrecked by a terrific cyclone which swept the country in…

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Today's Cablegrams. London. the French Floods

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

The river Seine is falling steadily. Each portion of Paris has been placed under a board of architects, engineers, and sanitary experts; and a…

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