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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1911

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Great Storm Raging Sea Inundates City. People Flee Prom Islands. New York

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 5

A great storm is raging in the states of Southern Carolina and Georgia, and already it is known that fire lives lave been lost…

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The Carolina Storm Many Vessels Wrecked. Town Under Water. People Marooned. New York

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1911 · page 2

Six torpedo boats are ashore and a score of other snall vessels have been wrecked at South Carolina. The whole lower part of the town is still…

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Flooding a Bank

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1911 · page 7

Like the Bank of England, the Bank of France is now guarded every night by soldiers, who do sentry duty outside the building, a watch being…

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Exciting Sea Trip Government Steamer in a Gale. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 2

The Government steamer Captain Cook arrived at Eden to-day, after an exciting trip. The steamer met a violent gale near Jervis Bay, and was…

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Floods in China. Cause Heavy Daily Death-roll. Inadequate Relief Fund. Peking

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 2

The Government has appropriated 600,000 tael as a flood relief fund, but this amount is regarded as totally inadequate. Seventy thousand…

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Gales in New Zealand AUCKLAND

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 2

Heavy gales, accompanied by rain, have occurred, flooding all parts of New Zealand. Much damage has already been done and shipping is…

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New Zealand Weather. Heavy Seas and Floods. Wellington (N.z.), Wed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 2

Heavy gales, accompanied by rain are causing floods in all parts of the dominion. During the past two days ouch damage has been done, and…

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Dear Food. Disorder Spreads to Germany. Women and Children Storm Shops. Brussels

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 2

The food disorders in Belgium, Holland, and Northern France are spreading to Germany. In many German homes meat appears on the table only…

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Disasters In Italy. Naples Flooded. Rivers of Mud From Vesuvius. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 2

A great storm occurred in Naples. The whole country is flooded and great loss of life is feared. The torrent of water swept away buildings in…

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Big Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 2

A phenomenal storm occurred at Windsor, when an inch and a quarter of rain fell in a short period, cattle wore killed, and residences…

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Terrific Storm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 4

A terrific storm, accompanied by cloud burst, occurred at Margon, near Bendigo, yesterday. It wrought extensive damage, few buildings in its…

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Heavy Hail Storms. Phenomenal Local Falls. Serious Damage at Experiment Farm

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 2

Following the sharp showers and hail on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday afforded local and district rain and hail records. In town, about 2…

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Local Floods

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 4

There have been considerable floods in some of the tributaries of the Tarcutta Creek, caused by local rains. On Wednesday night there was a very…

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Dam Bursts. Township Wiped Out. Heavy Death-rate. Fire Follows Flood. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 2

The township or Austin, Pennsyl-Tania, with its population of 3300, has been swept away by the dart of the Bayliss paper mill, which, containing…

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1,000 People Drowned. Floods in China. Port Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 2

Files of the Shanghai "Times" give details of floods at Nanking. One thousand people have been drowned at Loongtan, and crops and house have…

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Flood Death Roll. the Dam Burst in America. New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 2

A manage from Spokane states that it a known thai 22 persons lost their lives and that 86 others are missing in connection with the flood caused by…

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Seven Men Killed. Fatalities Caused by Storm. New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 October 1911 · page 2

High winds blew over a six-storey building, under construction, and caused a collapse, by which seven workmen were killed…

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Floods In U.S.A. Great Damage and Loss of Life. New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 October 1911 · page 2

The floods in the State of Wisconsin are receding after doing one million pounds worth of damage and causing the loss of probably twenty…

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Floods in America Rumored Loss of Life. Railways, Telephones, and Telegraphs Useless. Denver, (Colorado)

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 2

With the telephone and telegraph linos crippled and three hundred miles of railroad out of commission only meagre reports have been…

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North Sea Gale. Three Fishing Vessels Founder. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

Three Ramsgate fishing vessels, each carrying eleven hands, foundered in a North Sea gale…

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