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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1861

7 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Terrific Gales

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 April 1861 · page 4

The month of February opened with unusually genial weather; but before many days, passed, our shores were visited by one of those terrific storms which have…

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WINDSOR. Monday, 4 p.m. Flood in the Hawkesbury

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 May 1861 · page 3

We are again visited with another flood. The river nearly bank high and rising fast…

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Terrible Flood on the Richmond River

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 June 1861 · page 2

Just a month has elapsed since the last flood at the North Arms, and we are again visited with another, to completes the destruction that the last bad left…

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Heavy Snow Storm at Kiandra

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1861 · page 4

Of what lias really been the nature of a winter up in this particular locality but little has been known before the present one, at least no reliable authority; bas…

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A Man Swept Away by the Flood

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 August 1861 · page 4

-On (Sunday last, a miner, named Henry O'Lane, living near Victoria Gully, was suddenly lost sight of under circumstances which leave little doubt that the…

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Serious Disaster to the Great Eastern in a Heavy Gale

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 November 1861 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, the 18th instant, much excitement was produced throughout the whole of London in consequence of the receipt, by the Great Ship…

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Parramatta. Storm and Accident by Lightning

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1861 · page 3

Daring the afternoon of Friday a storm broke over the town which, although of short du[?]tion was accompanied with lightning as intenssly vivid as we ever recollect to have seen, One…

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