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

Floods & storms, 1892

109 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 6

The Richmond River Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 5 April 1892 · page 2

The floods in tho Clarence, Richmond end MacLeay Rivers are subsiding, leaving great destruction of crops. The damage to business places at Lismore has been great, and…

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To-day's Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. The Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 2

The Moods in the Macleny district have mined fully half the standing mazie crop: An 'ordinary about 'can bo rowed up the centre of he street. One select of water extends from Limsore to…

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To-day's Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday. FloodS Increasing

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 7 April 1892 · page 2

The Maitland district is in flood, the river is up 28 feet and still rising…

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Floods Subsiding

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 3

The floods on the Richmond and Macleay are subsiding, but the low lands are still covered. No further fatalities have occurred and all the families have returned to their…

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Floods In America

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 14 April 1892 · page 3

Great floods continue in Tennessee, entailing enormous destruction of property and loss of life…

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Destructive Floods

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 2

Floods have occurred at Alabama, in which 250 lives were lost and immense destruction done to property. Many people were rescued after being from four to six…

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Frightful Floods in America. the Mississippi "Burst. Thirteen Parishes Inundated. London

National Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1892 · page 2

Disastrous floods have occurred in Louisiana owing to the Mississippi bursting through its banks near New Orleans. Thirteen parishes have been…

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A Vessel Heaving To. A Nautical Operation Fraught With Great Danger. The Perils of a Storm on the Ocoan- Laying Aloft in a Howling Breeze—How

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 2

The operations of " heaving to," performed by neatly every sailing vessel caught on the coast during a storm, is never resorted to by merchant vessels until becomes absolutely…

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Wellington Notes. Wellington, Thursday. THUNDERSTORM

National Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 2

On Sunday, night a heavy downfall of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over the town. The country around is beginning to look well now,…

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Heavy Gale

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 3

A most severe southerly gale swept over Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday. A heavier gale has not occurred since 1864. Two cutters were wrecked and other damage…

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Floods In America

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 3

Great floods have occurred in America. Fifteen hundred families were flooded out at St. Louis and left homeless. A great track of land has been submerged, in ncluding four…

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Second Edition 3 a.m. Floods in America. 1,500 Families Homeless. London

National Advocate · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 3

Groat distress is being felt in the Mississippi Valley. Four hundred square miles of fertile land in the vicinity of St. Louis have been flooded, and…

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Those Awful Floods in the States. London

National Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1892 · page 2

It is reported, over one hundred persons were drowned in the floods at Iowa, and altogether that 8000 are homeless,in the flooded districts and states…

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Floods in the States. Dreadful Suffering and Loss. Hundreds of Farmers Ruined. Business Paralyzed. London

National Advocate · Monday 23 May 1892 · page 3

Distressing accounts are to hand of the floods in the States of Iowa. Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Minnesotta. All have suffered tremendous…

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Floods in America. a Public Benefactor Dies. Honoring Bravery. London

National Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1892 · page 2

The condition of the floods on the Missouri River are the same. It is reported that a great demonstration has been made at the burial of, a man who,…

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A Fearful Flood. London

National Advocate · Friday 27 May 1892 · page 3

A million acres have been submerged in the floods at, Tennessee. Arkansas, and much wheat destroyed…

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The Flood Boom

National Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1892 · page 2

America is nothing if not great, nothing if not a country of booms and startling situations. The latest with her is the flood boom by which more than…

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The World Floods in America. London

National Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1892 · page 3

The city of Arkansas is inundated by the floods. [?]reat loss of life is reported, and the floods have stopped all running of trains. The water is still rising…

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Thunderstorm in Melbourne. an Electric Wire Broken. a Man Killed and Another Injured. Melbourne, Monday Night

National Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1892 · page 2

A very heavy thunderstorm broke over Melbourne at 8 o'clock on Sunday night, deluging the streets. One of the electric lighting wires at the corner of…

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The Maur[?]ins Cyclone

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 2 June 1892 · page 2

Additional reports of the Mauritius cyclone depict most heartrending scenes. It is very doubtful if the colony will every recover from the disaster. Thousands of…

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