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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1910

39 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Beneficial Thunderstorm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 3

A heavy thunderstorm at Broken Hill has added a month’s supply to the water storage…

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Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

Al rivers in the Cloncurry district are in flood. The water is over the bridges on Mount Elliot branch line. West Australia…

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The Great Deluge

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 7

Another parallel to the old Bible stories is the Greek legend of the Great Deluge, through which the Ark of Deucalion floated safely to the heights of Mount…

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Tamworth Flooded

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

The floods at Tamworth were the most disasters ever experienced. In the northern part of the town, townspeople took refuge on roofs and…

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The Great Deluge

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 3

Another parallel to the old Bible stories is the Greek legend of the Ureal Deluge, through which the Ark of Deucalion floated safely to the heights of Mount…

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Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 4

Floods have damaged the line between Inverell and Gravesend so badly that the trains cannot be run for there months. Great destruction has…

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Disastrous Floods [?] Races Through Tamworth Streets. Townspeople Ruined [?] Hours Foodless

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 7

[?] to the recent flood at [?] A few [?] ago Tamworth was in [?] a prosperous season…

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The Floods in Tam Worth

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 8

Relative to the above Mr. E. A. Cork writes us under date of Tuesday last, January 18th, as follow:—I am just writing you a few lines…

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The Great Floods. Settlers’ Immense Losses. Homestead Ruined

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 4

BOGGABRI, Tuesday.—The flood at Gunnedah struck a note of tragedy, but it was also responsible for scenes of infinite pathos. This morning the…

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The Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1910 · page 4

On Tuesday it was reported first though the [?] and continue to rise and spread, [?] just out of race in of the dead…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday. the Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 4

The latest report to the Government from Brewarrina yesterday stated that the vivar was up 33th, and still rising. Unless further rain falls it is considered…

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The Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 2

Language fails to depict the miseries, wretchedness and less that have been caused by the disastrous floods. Some have seen the savings of a lifetime…

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A Flood at Oallen

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1910 · page 4

Accounts received of the flood at Oallen, Shoalhaven River, on the 10th Feb. describe it as unprecedented for the past twenty years…

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New Zealand. Gales in N. Z.

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1910 · page 2

Severe gales have caused much damage in South Island. Several large buildings have been either blown down or badly knocked about…

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Magnetic Storms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 10

Speaking before the Royal Society in London on the subject of magnetic storms, Mr. E. W. Maunder, superintendent of the Solar…

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SOME severe sou'-westerly gales this week

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 4

A PYREE farmer (Mr. J. D. Caines) has a maize crop that is panning out 183 bushels to the acre. THE output for the Milton butter factory…

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Flood Fatalities

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1910 · page 2

The destruction of life and property by floods in Hungary exceeds all records. There have been over a thousand deaths and enormous damage. Three hundred…

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New Zealand. Flooded Rivers

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 2

Warm easterly rain has caused the melting of snow hills to the north of Canterbury, and the rivers are flooded A coach from Kaikoura to Cheviot…

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New Zealand. FLOODS

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 4

Heavy rains have fallen in many parts of the country, particularly at Canterbury. The township of Kaikoura has been flooded, houses and shops being…

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Splendid Rainfall. About 7 Inches in Nowra. River Rapidly Rising. Low Lands Flooded

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 1

During the last few days Shoal-haven experienced the finest fall of rain it has had for many years. It was what might be characterised as…

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