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

Floods & storms, 1890

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Severe Storm in Sydney.—one Woman Killed

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 3

About 7 o'clock yesternight a severe storm swept over the city. The force of the wind reached 45 miles an hour, and it was accompanied by heavy rain, thunder…

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By Telegraph. Storm in Sydney. Sydney, This day

National Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 3

A cyclonic storm swept over Sydney at 6 o'clock, last night. Immediately the storm had ceased, the building known as the Artillery and Volunteer Hotel collapsed, Susan Hogan…

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Floods in Queensland. Brisbane, This Day

National Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 3

Heavy Hoods are reported from the north, and the greater part of Normanton is submerged. Numerous fatalities are reported…

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Heavy Storm in Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 6 January 1890 · page 3

'A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by a perfect deluge of nun, passed over the city yesternight, flooding the lower parts of the suburbs. No material…

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Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

The floods in Northern Queensland are abating. At Normanton the water is 13 feet over the Normanton Bridge…

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The Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 2

Disastrous floods continue in Northern Queensland. The mines arc inundated, and work has been stopped through the country in all directions. Telegraphic…

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The Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 3

The floods in the Aramac district (Q.) are the highest ever known. People have been compelled to seek refuge in trees, and several drowning fatalities are…

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Heavy Floods in the North of Queensland

National Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

The Queensland Minister for Mines has granted exemption for all miners on the Croydon field for a month owing to the heavy floods, In the Aramac district the flood is the highest…

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The Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

Latest news from the North shows very little alteration with regard to the floods. Rains continue throughout the colony, and there is but little immediate prospect…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Monday Morning. the Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 2

The floods in the central districts of Queensland are subsiding. Exceptionally heavy rains have fallen in some parts…

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Destructive Cyclone

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 3

A great cyclone has occurred at Illinois, causing immense destruction of property and a number of deaths…

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Floods in the North

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 3

The Queensland floods continue very heavy and severe…

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A Terrible Flood

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 3

There has been a terrible flood near Gympie. A creek, ordinarily a shallow stream, came down one solid wall of water 20 feet high. A number of houses…

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Heavy Floods near Gympie

National Advocate · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 3

Disastrous floods occurred on Monday night at Glastonbuay Creek, about 13 miles from Gympie (Q.), in consequence of the recent heavy rains. The water attained a height of…

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Floods in the Clarence

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 3

The Clarence, River is rising at the rate of a foot per hour. 5 inches of rain has fallen during tin; night, in some places the fall was 6½…

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Heavy Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 3

Heavy, floads, have occurred in the Macleay district. Eleven inches of rain have fallen since Saturday. Miles of country are submerged, and great damage…

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Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 2

The floods in Queensland have done a considerable amount of damage to the railway line, a large portion of which has been washed away…

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Floods in the Clarence

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 2

The heavy floods in the Clarence arc continuing…

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The Floods up North

National Advocate · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 3

Intelligence has just been received that the Richmond and Clarence Rivers' floods have considerably abated and a general subsidence of the water is anticipated to shortly take place…

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Queensland Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 3

The weather continues very unsettled. The floods generally arc subsiding. Several drowning fatalities arc reported…

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