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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

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Flood in India Three Million Homeless. Lahore, October 7

The Daily Express · Monday 9 October 1922 · page 2

Harrowing imports are received of unprecedented floods in North Bengal the Gogra and Raj[?] districts having suffered most. At Gorgra not…

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Storm at Campbelltown. R.C. College Suffers. Damage to Roofs and Buildings. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1922 · page 1

A terrific windstorm, of hurricane force, swept over Campbelltown last night, and did much damage to the west view of the Roman Catholic…

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Bad Storm at Rathurst Bathurst

The Daily Express · Wednesday 11 October 1922 · page 2

About £1000 worth of damage was done by a cyclone which lasted for two hours. The disturbance came from the west and did £500 worth of…

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Floods in India Heavy Loss of Life Lahore, October 11

The Daily Express · Friday 13 October 1922 · page 1

The Bengal floods are subsiding and high land is visible in certain places. The estimate casualties number…

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Lull After Storm . Everybody Pleased with Mudania Results Turks Flushed with Victory Forget the Past Appalling Disclosures of Horrible Plight of Asia Minor Refugees London, October 13

The Daily Express · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 1

Ha[?]owing details are reaching England from the Near East portraying that almost incredible sufferings of Christian…

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Dust Storm. Wagga Enveloped

The Daily Express · Monday 16 October 1922 · page 1

Swirling, blinding clouds of dust, accompanied by. winds of almost cyclonic force, dull [?] overcast skies and occasional sprinklings of…

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Cyclone a Sunday Storm Damage in Middle West Trundle

The Daily Express · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 1

A terrific cyclone storm passed over the town and district on Sunday afternoon. Ingram’s Union Hotel was struck…

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Storm at Yenda

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 3

A wind storm at Yenda on Sunday, blew down portion of the Methodist Church, at Yenda, which is in course of construction. Other buildings in…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage at Trundle. Trundle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 2

A terrific cycling storm passed over the town and district on Sunday afternoon. Ingram's Union Hotel was struck by lighting and one of the walls and…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage to Sydney Suburbs. Rain Extending Inland. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 1

Records at the Meteorological Bureau show that from the time the cyclonic storm commenced, last night, until it had cleared, over 2½ inches…

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Town Destroyed by Flood

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 2

Flood is secured only to fire in its power to spread panic and devastation, to destroy human life in mass and to wipe out the costliest and…

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Guarding a White Australia. flood for Tropical Industry. No. 2

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 1

The Ideal Australia of the future is a land populated from north to south by a diversity of well-established prosperous white producers living…

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Great Storm Suburban Murder Adventures in the Flood Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 28 October 1922 · page 1

During a storm last night a raging torrent of water swept for almost half a mile through several cross streets in Balmain, washed away…

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Raging Torrents. Severe Cyclonic Disturbance in Sydney. Suburban Houses Flooded with Water. Many Narrow Escapes. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1922 · page 4

A raging torrent of water swept for almost half-a-mile through several cross-streets at Balmain during last night's storm. William Young, of…

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Gale at Coota. Station Building Blown Down. Cootamundra

The Daily Express · Monday 30 October 1922 · page 2

A cyclonic sale has been blowing here since last night, and has done much damage In and around the town…

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Harbor Fatality. Four Persons Drowned. Another Storm in Sydney. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 October 1922 · page 2

Stormy weather conditions prevailed in Sydney end suburbs today and it is reported that several houses were blown down and a considerable amount of…

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"Dad" of the Country Press. Mr. John Gale, of Queanbeyan Attends Conference

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 November 1922 · page 2

Mr. John Gale, father of the Country Press, who has attained his 93rd birthday, two years ago remarried, attended the dinner given to…

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Disastrous Storm Damage at Naples Rome, November 5

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 1

[?] clonic rainstorm at Naples dev[?] parts of the city. Many [?] and business premises were [?] and several collapsed…

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Incident in a Storm. Rockhampton

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1922 · page 2

One of the worst storms experienced in Rockhampton, broke over the city last night, when much damage was done by wind, which blew with…

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A Super-hail Storm Cape Town, November 14

The Daily Express · Thursday 16 November 1922 · page 2

Information has been received of a terrific and [?] in-East [?] Fourteen natives were killed by…

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