The Floods. Miles of Country Under Water. Houses Partly Submerged. Wentworth
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 October 1917 · page 6
A heavy thunderstorm to-day practically destroyed all hope of saving Wentworth from inundation by the flood waters. For weeks public and private effort has been…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1917 · page 8
At 2 o'clock on Thursday morning, n heavy thunderstorm' broke over Hornsby, and travelled in a. north-easterly direction. The lightning was unusually vivid…
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The Mirror · Saturday 6 October 1917 · page 17
The Cape Horn swung clear of soundings and struck away for the open Atlantic. Twenty-four hours' grace was given to the new hands in which to recover from the prostrating effects…
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Evening News · Saturday 6 October 1917 · page 1
The Murray Roer this morning reached its highest point for the year—Hill [?] above summer [?] there has been exceptionally heavy rain on the upper watershed and as the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 October 1917 · page 14
Further heavy rain has fallen. The Murray is 12 feet 10 inches above summer level. The flats between Albury and Wodonga have now been covered for three months. The…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1917 · page 2
During a storm at Temora on Wednesday lightning struck one of the chimneys Union Bank, and caused the removal to some tiles from the roof. Slight damage was…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1917 · page 8
During the past week a series of rainstorms developed inland and worked eastward as a succession of waves, which affected New South Wales with widespread rains, associated with…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1917 · page 5
Stormy weather lias prevailed since Thursday. Yesterday afternoon a heavy hailstorm passed over the town. Altogether 180 points of rain were recorded. The Murray River at…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1917 · page 2
The river is rising rapidly at Gundagai and Wagga, the marks allowing 27ft at Gundagai and 24ft at Wagga, with rain, falling and weather threatening heavier falls. There is…
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The Sun · Sunday 7 October 1917 · page 4
Reports which reached the Water Commission to-day show that all rivers in the northeastern district are flooded us the result of the rainfall of the past two or three days…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Friday.--A telegram received from Chiltern, in the north-eastern district, states that a heavy storm occurred there last night. There was a, terrific wind, with thunder…
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Evening News · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 3
When [?] gale swept over [?] and one of [?]…
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The Sun · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 5
Mrs. Mary Kennedy, aged 76, who was blown over in the yard of her home in Marion-street, Enmore, during the storm on September 19 and had her left leg broken…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 10
The flats are covered, and the river is rising. Residents to-day are rescuing stock. The flood waters suddenly came over last night, following a storm yesterday, when two…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 7
As expected, the flood in the Murray reached serious dimensions to-day, when the water broke through Doctor's Point, south-east of the town, pouring along the depressions…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 4
A fire broke out on the A.U.S.N. Company 9 steamer Indarra, in the harbor, early yesterday morning. One hold had to be completely flooded…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 October 1917 · page 4
ALBURY, Sunday.--A great flood came down the Murray River to-day and overtook South Albury, known as The Flat, by surprise. Practically all the southern portion of the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coming Storm Socialists Attack Pan-germans Scenes in the Reichstag Motion of Censure on Government 67th Day of the Fourth Year of the War LONDON, Monday Night
The Sun · Tuesday 9 October 1917 · page 1
"The Times" correspondent at Amsterdam states that the German Sunday papers published columns of the Reichstag proceedings indicating that the political feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods at Albury. Fears of a Record Flood
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 9 October 1917 · page 5
A great flood occurred in the Murray River Valley on Sunday, and that part of South Albury, known as The Flat, where several hundred families reside, was…
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Evening News · Tuesday 9 October 1917 · page 4
The [?] in the Murray at Albury [?]…
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