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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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Victorian Floods. a Family Drowned. Townships Isolated. 400 Persons Homeless. Seymour

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 September 1916 · page 3

It is generally agreed that the flood which has swept the Goulburn Valley during the last day or two is the greatest since 1879, and many consider that…

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Disastrous Floods. Unprecedented Rains in Victoria. Many Lives Lost. Enormous Damage Done. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1916 · page 3

Victoria is still being rain-drenched, and the weather shows no signs of taking up. Today was as net as any experienced since the monsoonal change set in…

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Mooroopna Flooded. Town in Darkness

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 September 1916 · page 3

The highest flood ever experienced in Mooroopna took place on Tuesday. The river is over 35ft. high, and the flood water is pouring in through the…

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Victorian Floods. Twelve Lives Lost. Enormous Damage Done. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 September 1916 · page 3

It will be some time before a reasonably accurate estimate of the damage which has been done by the floods which have resulted everywhere in…

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Course Partially Flooded. Races May Be Postponed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 3

The Randwick racecourse if partially flooded, and it may he necessary to postpone to-morrow's races…

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Recent Flood in the Murrumbidgee River

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 4

The accompanying pictures, taken from photographs kindly supplied by Mr. E. H. Beard, show clearly the danger which threatened the town of…

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Floods Around Sydney. Suburban Traffic Delayed. Snow on Kiandra. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 4

The total rainfall for Sydney for the 24 hours ending 9 this morning is 186 points. Cooks River is flooded, and the…

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The Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

There were some amusing incidents on the roads on Sunday after the storm Messrs. G. Attwood and F. Howell started for Mr. Attwood's farm on…

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The Storm That Is Going to Break

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

The inexorable advance of the British and French on the Somme front, the successes of the Russians, the Roumanians, the Servians, and the…

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Two Fortified Villages Taken. Serbians Storm a Height

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

The British on the left bank of the Struma brilliantly carried two fortified villages near the Seres road. Several hundred were prisonered…

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Floods in Victoria

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

The floods waters in Victoria are finding their way into places never before flooded. Miles of country south of Numurkah are under water…

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Floods in the City. A.J.C. Races Postponed. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

The Cataract Dam has risen 4ft. 3in. since Friday morning. 103 points of rain have been recorded sinsce Saturday up to 9 o'clock this morning…

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The Weather. Heavy Rain

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 2

It rained steadily and persistently in Wagga all day yesterday and gave no sign of clearing away at 1 o'clock this morning, up to which hour 134 points of…

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General Rain. Floods in the City. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 2

Further general rains are reported throughout the State, with no immediate prospects of clearance. Many low-lying parts of the suburbs…

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Country Flooded. River Waters Rising. Mail Services Interrupted. Lake Albert Overflowing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 3

The news that the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai and other places above Wagga was rising fairly rapidly caused a mild flutter of excitement in…

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Coastal Districts. Nepean River in Flood. Train Services Held Up. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 3

Rains continue practically throughout the State, exceptionally heavy in many places. The railway traffic has been delayed on many lines…

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District News. Ganmain. Boggy Creek in Flood

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 2

On Thursday yesterday between Garmain and [?] water lying everywhere in pools, and the dams in the [?] paddocks in many instances gave…

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The River. Flood Waters Rising. Critical Stage Reached

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1916 · page 4

The condition of the river was the centre of interest with many people in Wagga yesterday. From morning and into the night there was a procession…

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Floods at Bathurst Hawkesbury a Banker

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1916 · page 5

Several hundred people were rendered homeless at Bathurst by the flood waters. The military camp there was flooded…

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Sydney Floods Camden Railway 4ft. Under Water. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1916 · page 5

The Flood waters are subsiding, and all the train services have been restored, except Camden, where the line is covered for half mile to a…

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