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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 47

Drowned in Flooded Creek. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 8

A drowning fatality occurred at Yarra, a few miles from Goulburn this morning. John George Ferguson, aged 65, was attempting to swim his horse across Yarra Creek, which was…

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Out of Control Burrinjuck Overflows Big Flood Expected Wagga

The Sun · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 7

The Wagga Police are in receipt of the following message from the police at Gundagai:--"The river at Jug[?]ong is 12 feet high…

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Biggest Flood for Fifty Years

The Sun · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 1

Goulburn experienced its biggest flood for half a century. The top photograph shows the club house of the golf links, from which the caretaKer was rescued in a boat. The lower picture is a view looking east from the railway station. The pines mark the main street to the eastern suburbs…

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Flood Rains. Damage at Camden Trains Held Up Bridges Under Water

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 5

Tree tops, bits of fencing here and there, the upper portions of telegraph poles, and the roofs of two small railway waiting-rooms…

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Canberra Meets Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

Running several hours late owing to the gale, the passenger steamer Canberra arrived lost evening from Melbourne. She met the bad weather after passing…

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Shipping Warned Is Cyclone Returning ?

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

Acting on advices from the Weather Bureau, the Superintendent of Navigation (Captain Cumming) is warning shipping of the cyclone. It has…

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Back Again Drifting Cyclone New Lease of Life Danger of floods

Evening News · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 6

After thoroughly drenching—and in some parts flooding—the northeast of N.S.W. the cyclonic storm—which first made its way down…

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CYCLONE-GRIPPED Yankalilla's Struggle 16 Hours Helpless

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 3

Captain Lucas, master of the interstate trader Yankalilla, to-day reported having passed through the vortex of the cyclone when near Gabo. For 16…

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Ray of Hope Fringe of Cyclone Only

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 7

Mr. Mares said to-day that the present rain was due to a revival of south-west to south-east winds associated with the recent…

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In Peril Off Gabo Yankalilla Disabled Swept by Cyclone

Evening News · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

Just north of Gabo island the Adelaide Company's steamer Yankalilla ran into the cyclone. Her engines broke down, and her…

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The Storm. Passing Away. Heavy Seas in Bass Strait

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 9

The recent cyclonic disturbance can now be said to have passed beyond the limits of New-South Wales, Last night there were no indications of a return of unsettled conditions…

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Country Stock Sales Small Yardings Floods Affect Markets [?]ATHURST

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 6

Messrs. E. H. Taylor & Co., of Bathurst, report a small yarding of only seventy cattle at thier sale on Wednesday last, consisting chiefly of interior cattle, no prime sorts being forward…

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Flood Rains Good Fails Inland Country Benefits

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 4

As the result of a monsoonal stor[?] at the beginning of the week practically the whole of New South Wales has received a thorough drenching. In…

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In China Too Floods Do Damage Peking's Plight New York, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 1

Cablegrams from Peking tell of unprecedented rains and floods which art ruining the crops in Northern China. The floods also threaten serious…

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FLOODS In Parts of the Country General Rain

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 16

General rain has fallen, and the dry spell is broken in many districts of the North North-West. and Central West. On the Coast, there have been…

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Burrinjuck. Alarming Report. Flood Feared. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 9

Alarming repoits reached here this morning through the police, who sent telephone messages warning people to shift off low-lying country, and remove their stock to higher…

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Much Damage by Floods

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 3

The flood waters have now receded, and residents in the affected areas are taking stock. There has been extensive damage to fences and gardens…

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Deaths and Flood Goulburn's Unlucky Week Old Man Found Dead Goulburn

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 3

Goulburn scorns to have struck an unlucky week. On Monday a resident of Moss Vale district died in the local district hospital of injuries…

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Flood Danger

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

The Lachian River has risen to 251ft. 6in. at Forbes. As the danger level is 27ft 6in. the position is regarded with apprehension. The Murrumbidgee has…

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Mails Turn Back Umeralla River in Flood Bridge Threatened Queanbeyan

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

The Cooma mail is stranded at Queanbeyan. It left bore as usual, but after proceeding to Michelago had to return here owing to the damaged…

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