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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1912

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Mississippi Floods. Render Thousands Homeless. the Crisis. New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 April 1912 · page 2

A crisis has been reached in connection with the flooding of the Mississippi. If the dykes in Arkansas, Mississippi State and Northern…

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Phenomenal Rains. TOTAL, 41.50 Inches. Cyclonic Storm. Property Damaged. Innisfail (Q)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1912 · page 1

A cyclonic disturbance prevailed here on Saturday. It commenced about [?]o' clock in the afternoon, the wind incerasing in violence, with…

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Bl Flood. Lated

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 12 April 1912 · page 4

From of the country image done by biller said "Lloyd's News " Fierce snow. storms the Northern…

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Mississippi Floods. Subsidence Followed by Disease. New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 4

A message from Memphis (Tennessee) states that reports from everywhere indicate the subsidence of the floods. A serious outbreak of…

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American Flood Subsiding. Serious Outbreak of Fever. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 2

Reports from Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A., indicate that the floods are subsiding everywhere. A serious outbreak of fever has…

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Gale in Sydney. Serious Damage Done. Large Building Blown Down. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1912 · page 2

The gale continues to rage in Sydney, with heavy rain and squalls, High seas are incoming the coast and incoming Vessels report a had…

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Gale in Sydney. Two Storey Factory Blown Down. £1,500 Damage. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 April 1912 · page 5

A gale continued to rage throughout the day, and was responsible for much damage. A large two-storied factory in course…

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Mississippi Floods. Heavy Damage Done. Many Persons Missing. Forenas (Louisiana)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1912 · page 2

The levees guarding the country towns along the banks of the Mississippi broke and the river is rising rapidly. It is causing wholesale…

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Mississippi Floods. Thousands of Homeless. Towns Inundated. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 May 1912 · page 2

The conditions on the Lower Mississippi caused by the flood are appealing. Over 100,000 persons are reported homeless. The water is…

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Mississippi Floods. People on Roofs of Houses. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 2

The latest reports of the floods in the Lower Mississippi show that the water was swirled through the town and is increasing is depth every minute and…

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The Sugar Storm. a Phase of the Situation That Calls for Earnest Consideration

The Worker · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 12

When an industry controlled by a monopolistic concern readies such a stage that the Government of the day has perforce to appoint a Royal Commission to…

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Mississippi Floods. New Orleans

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 4

The flood is abating owing to three days absence of rain. Preparations are complete for caring for refugees, and attempts to house them are…

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The New Orleans Flood. Danger Believed to Be Past London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 2

Reports from New Orleans (America) state that the flood is abating, after three days' absence of rain. Preparations were complete for the…

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Terrific Storms Lightning Fires Warehouse. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 May 1912 · page 2

At Desmoines (lowa) on Friday, a terrific electric storm visited the district. Houses were flooded through the rainstorms. Lightning str[?]…

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Terrific-Cyclone. Villages Destroyed. Budapest

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1912 · page 3

A cyclone swept over Alsofsher country and destroyed several villages, and 450 dwellings and 200 vineyards and buildings were demolished…

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Devastating Cyclone Hungarian Villages and Vineyards Wrecked. Six Persons Killed. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 May 1912 · page 2

A terrific cyclone swept over a considerable stretch of Southern Hungary destroying in its course several villages, 450 dwellings, and 200…

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Children Killed. Collapse of a Wall. Caused by Heavy Rain

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 7

Two children were killed and one injured by the collapse of a wall in Southwark on Saturday afternoon (said "Lloyd's News" on March 3)…

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Immense Floods Great Distress

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 2

New Orleans, with approximately 7.500 square miles, and Louisiana lands are inundated, and more than one hundred thousand person fare…

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Mississippi Floods. Another Breach of Levees New Orleans

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 2

Another breach of the Mississippi levees deluded ten square miles. Sixty thousand people are homeless but no lives were lost. The damage was enormous…

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Sixty Years Ago. Life on the Murrumbidgee. Blacks and Floods. Old Woman's Interesting Story

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 3

"No. I've never been in a train in my life, neither have I seen one, but at a distance of two miles. I am 86 years of age and have lived in…

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