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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

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Matters Feminine. a Word to Women. The Pleasures of Middle Age. After the Storm and Stress. (Concluded from last week.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 2

Youth is delightful, glorious, a splendid gift from the gods, but only half realised while we have it, fully appreciated when it is…

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Killed by Storms

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 2

Reports from various points along the south east coast of England indicate that a hundred lives were lost through storms during the last 48 hours,…

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Terrific Gales Damage in United Kingdom. Railway Train Blown Over. London, Feb. 19

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 2

Terrific gales have been experienced throughout the United Kingdom. In some places the wind reached a velocity of over seventy miles an hour. A…

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Terrific Gales. Velocity of 80 Miles. Thain Thrown Into the Sea. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 3

The hurricane throughout Great Britain continues, the velocity ia some places reaching 80 miles an hour. Channel passengers ate unable to land at Folkstone…

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Calamitous Floods. Followed by Famine. People Dying of Starvation. Distressing Situation. London, Feb. 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 2

The Victorian (B.C.) steamer Teucer, has arrived with news of heavy loss of life in Shasi, due to famine in consequence of the great floods…

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The Gale in Britain. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 February 1910 · page 2

Sunday's Gale in Great Britain, which caused considerable damage, reached the tremendous velocity of a hundred miles an hour…

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Which Is the Worst? Drought, Flood, or Labor Party!

The Worker · Thursday 24 February 1910 · page 5

The following, taken from the Mackay "Pioneer," shows to what length the bigoted prejudice of some officials will run if allowed to go on unchecked:—…

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More Heavy Rain in Paris

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 3

Terrible weather has been experienced on the coast of Great Britain. Torrential rains have fallen in paris, and the Seine is rising at the…

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General Cables Severe Gales. London, Feb. 28

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 2

Terrible weather has been raging on the coast of England. A powerful cole tore up trees by the roots and hurled them long distances away…

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Floods in France. Seine Again Rising. London, Feb. 28

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1910 · page 2

Torrential rains have fallen in Paris for two days, the Seine rising a foot daily. A vault in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, where sixteen archbishops…

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Disastrous Floods Parts of American Inundated. Villages in Darkness. Vancouver (B.c.) March 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1910 · page 2

Reports from New York indicate that a large area of country is in[?]undated by floods, which equal the worst experienced. Many villages are…

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Floods Subsiding

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 2

The floods at Idaho are subsiding, and trains are beginning to run to-day…

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Deplorable Floods

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 2

The most devastating floods in the history of East Washington (U.S.) are reported. Seven people have been drowned; and a New York…

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Calamitous Floods. Destruction in America. the Seine Again Affected. Many Lives Lost. Vancouver (B.c.), March 4

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 2

An East washington message tells of the most devastating floods in the history of that region. Up to midnight seven people were drowned…

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Floods Subsiding in Idaho

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 2

The floods in Idaho are subsiding. The trains are beginning to run today…

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Snowfall and Floods

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 7

It is well-known that the amount of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains determines the flow of water in the leading rivers that head in this…

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Rhonda Valley Flooded

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

Owing to heavy rain a dam in the Rhonda Valley (South Wales) bunt, causing heavy loss, and fleeding many houses. Eight lives were lost…

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A Valley Flooded. Bursting of a Dam. Eight Lives Lost. Rescue of School Children. London, March 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

The Rhondda Valley in Glamorganshire, was swept by a flood which was caused by the bursting of a dam. At Clydach Vale the houses were…

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Disastrous Welsh Flood Occasioned by a Bursting Dam. Eight Lives Lost. Exciting Scenes of Rescue. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

Owing to recent heavy rains, the [?]m at Rhonda Valley burst yesterday, causing heavy loss and flooding many houses and much country in…

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Floods in Missouri. a Steamer Wrecked. Town Inundated. Vancouver, March 16

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 3

Heavy floods are sweeping the lowlands of Missouri. A steamer was wrecked in the surging waters. Reports from Mandan indicate that the…

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