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Floods & storms, 1911

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Highest Ocean Waves Fifty Feet the Limit. Wind Waves, Storm Waves, and Ground Swells

Evening News · Monday 27 November 1911 · page 8

Measurements of the sire of waver have now been made systematically for many years, but they relate chiefly to the waves if the open sea where the depth of the water is so great…

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Sold His Chickens. "Cyclone" Thompson Gives Up Poultry Farm. Couldn't Get Fight with Papke. Will Meet Johnson If Required

The Sun · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 3

"Cyclone" Johnny Thompson has made the trip across the Pacific to Australia for both business and pleasure purposes, and as he has ids wife and family with him, he is not…

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Namoi River in Flood. Boggabri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 November 1911 · page 5

The Namol River is now a banker, the Stream being fourteen feet, and rising slowly. The flood will prove very beneficial…

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Tropical Day in the City. Heavy Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 14

One of the most disagreeable of [?] days for some time past was experienced in the city yesterday. The temperature during the night never once fell below 70deg., while the…

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The Weather. Heavy Rain in Places. To-day's Forecase

Evening News · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 4

Commonwealth Bureau [?] South Wales issued at noon to-day for the next 24 hours:—Still warm to hot, and [?] with northerly winds, isolated [?] and…

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Nurse Monica's Patient. [?] Rights Reserved] Chapter Xiv. a Day of Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 6

Monica's interview with James Rogers at the White Hart convinced her that her patiet was honest. Mistaken in many ways he might be; his friend suggestedas much…

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Queensland Saved. Drought Completely Broken. Flood Falls in Places. No Tidings of Coaches. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 18

Rain of a fairly general nature has fallen during the past 24 hours west of a line joining Townsville and Cunnamulla, on the northern coast, and on the peninsula. Some very…

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Flood at Junee. a Record Downpour

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 11

JUNEE, Tuesday.--Four inches of rain fell in 26 hours. At 1 o'clock to-day a sudden roar of water was heard, and a torrent was seen rolling down the Wantabadgery-road, east of…

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Revenge! Floodgates of Blood Opened. Massacre of Arabs at Tripoli. "Indiscriminate Slaughter." Scenes of Fiendish Savagery

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 November 1911 · page 9

LONDON, November 3.--The grim story of vengeance on the Arabs who made the rear attack on the defenders of Tripoli on October 23 has been only partially explained away by the…

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Cyclonic Storm. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 November 1911 · page 9

A severe cyclonic storm visited here on Monday night, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, when 116 points were registered. Five telegraph posts were shattered by the…

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Floods in Queensland. Mails Overdue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 November 1911 · page 9

CHARLEVILLE, Wednesday.--The weather continues very hot and muggy, with indications of storms. Adavale reports very fine rains on Milo,…

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Cyclone at Homebush

Evening News · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 7

A cyclonic disturbance broke over Home bush and Flemington about half-past this afternoon, and the force of the wind and the heavy torrential rain which raged for half an hour…

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Storm at Parramatta

Evening News · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 7

[?] citizen who had endured the [?] heat of the morning with much discomfort looked [?] at the Cark clouds which banked up in the west at noon to-day…

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Floods at Junee

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 6

A message from Junee says:— "Four Indies of rain fell in 26 hours. At 1 o'clock to-day a sudden roar of water was heard, and a torrent was seen…

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Manly in Danger. Defective Flood Pipes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 11

In the event of heavy rain occurring the low-lying parts of North Manly would be flooded to an alarming extent. The large Monier pipes set in at the month of…

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Heavy Rain. Two and a Quarter Inches at Sydney

Evening News · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 8

Rain continued to fall this morning at Sydney, on the central portion of the coast line, and also on the north-east districts. Among the falls recorded up to 11 o'clock this morning…

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Violent Storm at Kerang

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The hear wave broke last night in the north-west when a storm of extraordinary violence occurred in Kerang. The streets were in flood; trees were uprooted, spouting torn down, and houses…

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Gale at Galveston. New York

The Sun · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 1

A heavy gale has been blowing at Galveston, in the Gulf of Mexico, since Sunday, and scores of steamers have been stranded…

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Storm at the Barrier. Streets Flooded. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 18

The rain of last night and this morning was a record for Broken Hill for a limited time. Three and a half inches was recorded in 11 hours. The city and surroundings were flooded…

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Boy Swept Down Storm-water Channel

Evening News · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 8

Herbert ROy Smith, 10, who resides at Petersham, had a narrow escape from drowning on Friday afternoon. He was playing in the vicinity of the stormwater channel in…

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