Terrific Storm Mailboat's Escape Life-belts Distributed
The Sun · Saturday 20 October 1917 · page 4
With bridge showing the scar of the terrific smash she received in the worst storm weathered in all her career, the Canadian Australian liner Makura, Captain J. D. S…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 21 October 1917 · page 1
A peculiar fire, believed to have been caused by lightning during a thunderstorm, took place on the Deniliquin-road on Tuesday night. George Mensforth was camped with a waggon…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 21 October 1917 · page 8
The chief feature of the weather of the week has been the lingering of the rear isobars of a high pressure over Eastern Australia. This has resulted in steadily increasing…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 21 October 1917 · page 5
The flood in the Murrumbidgee reached the highest point at Hay to-day for years—22ft 9in—and is still rising. Below Hay the river has never been in a State of flood for months…
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Evening News · Monday 22 October 1917 · page 5
The [?]…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 October 1917 · page 7
The climax of the various serious floods experienced here this year was reached to-day, when the Murray rose to the highest point since 1867—11in above the heavy flood of this…
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The Sun · Monday 22 October 1917 · page 5
There was a recurrence yesterday on a bigger scale of the flood which inundated the southern portion of Albury two weeks ago. Practically all the residents of the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 October 1917 · page 4
ALBURY, Sunday.—This morning a greater flood than the one that occurred exactly a fortnight ago submerged practically all the southern residential portion of Albury…
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Evening News · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 3
The [?]ood in the Murrumbrige on Monday [?] the [?] point touched this year [?] which is new [?] falling, had not been so high [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooded Out. Many People Homeless. Murray River Miles Wide. Albury, Tuesday Afternoon
Evening News · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 5
The [?] last night [?] a point two and a ha[?] in has b[?] the [?] which oc[?] when the [?] recorded was left [?] at summer…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 8
The Murray to-day reached the highest point ever known—16 feet 7 inches above summer level—the same height as in 1867. During last night there was a fall of three inches,…
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The Sun · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 5
At 12.30 this morning the [?]ood reached its highest point, 16ft. 9in. above summer level, and thus exceeds the great flood of 50 years ago, the highest on record…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 October 1917 · page 5
ALBURY, Monday.--The greatest flood ever known in the history of Albury is to-night racing through the southern portion of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray Flood. Fall in River at Albury. Corowa Suffers Severely. Albury, Wednesday Afternoon
Evening News · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 5
There has been a satisfactory fall in the Mur[?]ay River waters. which now stand at 15th 7th above summer level, of [?]in below the extreme registration reached yesterday…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 11
Reports from Cobram to-day state that the Murray River rose with startling rapidity last night, and that the water overflowing the levee banks, rushed into the town. In a very…
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The Sun · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 5
The flood-waters covering Southern Albury are slowly receding. The official reading at 9 o'clock this morning was 15ft. 7in. above summer level. The highest point recorded…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 6
ALBURY, Tuesday.--The flood waters reached their highest level at 4 a.m., when the gauge was slightly over 16ft. 10in, above summer level, and 2in. higher than in the 1867 flood…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 October 1917 · page 18
The Murray River rose rapidly at Albury on October 20, and on October 21 the highest flood for 50 years was experienced. The flood followed on three days' rain, which was heavier…
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Evening News · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 5
The Murrumbldgee [?] bere is higher that a has been for 26 years. The food watera will destrey the furulant staes on large [?] of lowl-ly is land below the town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murray River Floods. Train Service at Cobram Suspended. Stream Ten Miles Wide. BERGIGAN,Thursday
Evening News · Thursday 25 October 1917 · page 5
A foll of about an-h was recorded in the Murray [?] at cobram this morning. Advices from Albury show as gauging of 14fth was also…
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