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

Floods & storms, 1893

295 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 15

Flood in the Darling

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 2

Official advices report that a flood is threatening in the Darling River. The homestead lesees are removing their stock…

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Terrific Gale. Floods in the Hunter. Maitland People Alarmed. Queensland Again in Difficulty. Bad News From Brisbane and Ipswich. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 12 June 1893 · page 2

A tremendous gale prevailed throughout yesterday. There was a mountainous sea along the coast, and at one period, the wind reached 58 miles per hour…

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A Tremendous Gale. Buildings and Houses Wrecked in Sydney and Newcastle. Sydney, Thursday night

National Advocate · Monday 12 June 1893 · page 2

All last night heavy gales blew along the coast, the wind being at the rate of 35 miles an hour, the heaviest recorded for six months. The weather is even…

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Another Brisbane Deluge

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1893 · page 2

Brisbane is threatened with another flood. On Sunday the river was over the wharves, and all the south part of tho city was in danger. At Ipswich…

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A Big Gale

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1893 · page 3

A very heavy gale with high sea raged along the coast on Saturday night, and both in the harbor, where traffic was impedel, and outside there…

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The Floods. Rough Experience. the Portion at Grafton. Boats Plying in the Streets. the Hunter District Under Water. Brisbane Again Flooded. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 13 June 1893 · page 2

The weather continues unsettled. No shipping disasters are reported from the recent gale, but vessels arriving report terrible experiences…

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The Flood at McLean. SYDNEY, Tuesday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 3

A great flood submerges Maclean where many cattle have been struck dead by lightning, and an immense area of crops destroyed…

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The Flood-fiend

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 3

The Brisbane flood of Sunday was severe enough to fill the cellars of some of the warehouses near the river. That at Maitland has now subsided, and fears of…

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The Floods in the North

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 2

Following are the wires giving particulars of the floods:- GRAFTON, Monday. Grafton has been visited by another…

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The Floods in Queensland

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 2

The flood waters are receding in the Brisbane River, and will soon reach the normal height…

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The Recent Gale

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

During the late gale the brigantine " Saucy Jack" was driven ashore at Cofts Harbour without a soul aboard. The vessel was bound from Sydney to…

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The Flood Fiend

National Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 2

The floods at Grafton have subsided, but great injury has been done the dairying industry there. At Maclean on Saturday a tremendous storm blew,…

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The Floods. an Exciting Episode. Moree

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 15 June 1893 · page 3

The rivee here is in high flood. A considerable amount of excitement was caused in town last night when news came to the effect that a number of men were…

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The Floods. the Macleay District. West Kempsey Four Feet Under Water. Houses Swept Away. Terrible Distress. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 16 June 1893 · page 2

During the past few days the Macleay district has been visited by the largest flood. ever known by white men. Central and West Kempsey are four…

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A Deluge at Kempsey

National Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1893 · page 2

The biggest flood ever known there has swept over Kempsey. Immense numbers of houses have been destroyed, whilst the loss in stock end other…

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The Kempsey Deluge

National Advocate · Monday 19 June 1893 · page 2

The flood at Kempsey has now drained off the streets, though the rain to property wrought is something terrible. A large number of persons have been…

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The Strike Cloud Rises and Grows More Dark. No Silver Lining Yet, But Every Promise of a Storm. Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 19 June 1893 · page 3

THE TOILERS OF THE SEA. Nothing apparently can save Australia from another terrible industrial upheaval. The Maritime difficulty…

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The Kempsey Deluge

National Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1893 · page 3

A public meeting was held in Kempsey on Saturday night to consider the best means of relieving the sufferings of the hundreds of persons rendered destitute…

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The Recent Kempsey floods

National Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1893 · page 2

Up to present Kempsey has collected £600. This sum is quite inadequate to relieve the distress existing. The river is silting up…

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Compensation For The Brisbane Flood

National Advocate · Wednesday 28 June 1893 · page 2

Says the Rev. W. H. Fichett:—An event more important than the rise, or fall of Ministries is the break-up of the wasting drought, under which, for Well…

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