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Floods & storms, 1908

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The Floods in India. Worse Than at First Reported. Thousands of Lives Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Although the Government warned the dwellers on the banks of the Musa River at Hyderabad, India, to escape from the…

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Floods in India. Many Heroic Rescues. the Starving and Destitute. Looting Grain Shops. London, Oct. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 13

Many heroic rescues are recorded in connection with the flood at Haidarabad, India. The nurses of the Victoria Zenana…

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The Flood Disaster. Many Heroic Rescues. Looting by Starving Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- There were many heroic rescues during the Hyderabad floods. The nurses of the Victoria Zenana Hospital saved the patients by…

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THE HAIDARABAb Flood. Fifty Thousand Lives Lost. Damage, £13,000,000. LONDON, Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 7

A special correspondent describes the Haidarabad, India, where the flood occurred, as a "black grave." Six hundred corpses, were removed…

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Great Floods in India

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 12

Disastrous floods have occurred in Haidarabad and the Deccan, India, with heavy loss of life. Fifteen inches of rain fell in 80 hours. Mussi River, on which the city of Haidarabad…

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Indian Floods An Appalling Disaster LONDON, Saturday, 6.36 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 4 October 1908 · page 1

A special correspondent of one of the London dailies describes Hyderabad as a black grave. The bodies of 600 natives drowned in the…

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Flood Calamity. 50,000 Drowned in India. London, Oct. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1908 · page 7

As further details of the floods in Southern India are received the extent of the calamity grows. A special correspondent describes…

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The Indian Floods. Hyderabad a "Black Grave." Death-roll of 50,000

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 October 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Saturday.--A special correspondent who has visited the scene of the floods in India, describes Hyderabad as a "black grave."…

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The American Fleet in a Hurricane at Manila Ships Safely Ride Out the Storm. London, Monday, 3.10 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 1

A terrific hurricane swept over the Philippine Islands yesterday. The wind reached a velocity of 100 miles an hour, and the American Fleet, in port…

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The Hyderabad Floods. 7000 Bodies Recovered. the Death Roll All Estimates Exceeded

Evening News · Tuesday 6 October 1908 · page 4

LONDON, Monday Evening.—Seven thousand have already been recovered from the Hyderabad floods. The death roll is likely to exceed all…

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Floods in India. Terrible Death Roll. London, Oct. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 9

Further details respecting the recent floods in Haidarabad, India, show that 7000 bodies have been recovered. The death roll is likely to exceed all…

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Dreadful Flood in India

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 50

Hyderabad, the capital of the Nizam's Dominions, situated on the right bank of the River Musi, India, has been the scene of a dreadful flood, the death roll being…

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The Storm in the East

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 6

Although the cables this morning report that diplomatic circles In Paris regard the outlook in the near East as more reassuring. the tension is still such that no one can…

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Gale on New Zealand Coast. Moeraki and Selwyn Craig Suffer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 9

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The steamer Moeraki had a boisterous experience approaching the New Zealand coast, on the passage from Sydney. Forty feet of the rail was carried…

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Europe's Storm Centre the Proposed Congress Austrian Opinion Opposes It Turkish Admiration for British Justice London, Wednesday, 3.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 1

Austrian opinion opposes the idea of a European Conference, lest it should raise differences between the Powers. The "Times" protest against Great…

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Seventy-Mile An Hour Gale. Great Loss of Life. Women's Leap to a Lifeboat

The World's News · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 3

A GALE of terrific and unprecedented violence swept over Great Britain throughout Monday night, August 31, and Tuesday, September 1, causing widespread havoc on…

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Death-roll of Indian Floods

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 October 1908 · page 12

Further details respecting the recent floods in Haidarabad, India, show that 7000 bodies have been recovered. The death roll is likely to exceed all estimates…

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Helga in a Gale. Sustains Some Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 October 1908 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.--The barquentine Helga arrived from Newcastle to-day, in a weather-[?]aten condition, having encountered the recent gales which raged off the Australian…

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Murrumbidgee in Flood. Conditions at Barren Jack

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 October 1908 · page 12

A question was asked by Mr. Holman in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday as to the pecuniary extent of the damage caused by the recent "washaway" at Barren Jack…

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Mr. Maxwell Kealy Storms Again

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 4

Maxwell Keely is on the job again. He is out on the warpath to stop people from getting a discount for paying cash…

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