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

Floods & storms, 1899

241 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 13

Storms in Great Britain. LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

Westerly gales continue over Great Britain and Ireland and have caused many wrecks…

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Terrible Storms at Sea. LONDON

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 3

Several of the overdue Atlantic Liners have reached New York, the captains report terrible weather…

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The Storms in America. Ten Feet of Snow in Washington. Railway Traffic Blocked. Many Deaths Recorded. London

National Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1899 · page 2

Reports from all parts of the United States show that inordinately severe weather is being experienced. At Washington great falls of snow…

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Terrible Storms. Destruction on Sea and Land. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 17 February 1899 · page 3

It is reported from the Azores that the crew of a steamer, the came of which is unknown, has picked up a boatload of people who left the sinking…

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The Recent Gales. Shipping Dangers. London

National Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 2

The steamer Etruria had a terrible passage to New York. She narrowly escaped a collision with the cruiser Marblehead in a fog. The Bulgaria has been again sighted, in…

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The Storm Water Channel

Leader · Wednesday 22 February 1899 · page 2

Some time ago we published a paragraph, suggesting the advisability of continuing the storm water channel from Kite-street to Moulder-street. Yesterday we received the…

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The Atlantic Storms. Disablement of the Pavonia. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1899 · page 3

Further details have been received of the disablement in the Atlantic of the Cunard steamer Pavonia. For 20 days the Pavonia was adrift…

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Heavy Rain

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1899 · page 7

DURING last Wednesday afternoon, a slight thunder storm occurred over Molong; bringing along a cooling breeze with a little bail and rain. Away towards Cumnock and Larras Lake, the…

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Mustard and Cress. a Teapot Storm

Leader · Wednesday 1 March 1899 · page 4

I notice that many country newspapers complain with much bitterness of the proposal of the banks to charge [?]s per half-year on current accounts, whether in credit or…

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Scene on the Vale Road. Flood-bound Travellers

National Advocate · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

It is said that the scene on the Vale Road last night was unprecedented, as a sheet of water averaging two feet deep extended the whole distance from Orton…

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Kelso Flooded

National Advocate · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

The storm burst over Kelso with tremendous violence and all the low-lying parts were inundated within a few minutes, the water flowing over the top…

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A Welcome Change. Downpour of Rain Flooded Rivers and Creeks

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

The district was again visited yesterday with one of those welcome thunderstorms which some of the weatherwise people predict are the harbinger of better seasons…

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The Kelso Flood

National Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 2

It having been represented to us that our report of the recent flood at Kelso reflected on the work performed in making the deviation, we state now that no suck meaning…

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Storms in America. Snow, Blizzabds and Floods. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3

There has been a recurrence of disastrous storms throughout the United States. In the eastern States great damage has been caused by snowstorms and blizzards…

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Disastrous Storms and Floods. in the United States. London

National Advocate · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 2

Snowstorms and blizzards in the eastern, and floods in the western, parti of the United States have destroyed villages and rendered 25,000 people…

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Destructive Storm. LONDON

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3

A fierce storm at Buenos Ayres has destroyed 3,00,000 tons of wheat…

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Storm-tossed. Chapter I. I Am Born at Newcastle-on-tyne

National Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 4

I am not only a sailor's daughter, but I may my that I was born among sailors, as much so as if my birth had taken place on board skip ; for on the evening…

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The Storyteller. Storm-tossed. Chapter I. I Am Born at Newcastle-on-tyre

National Advocate · Monday 13 March 1899 · page 4

"[?]-res-dice," grumbled my father, [?]onging upon the word, and looking somewhat severely upon the mate who had proposed it. "Pagan! Would you…

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The Storyteller. Storm-tossed. Chapter Ii. Childhood

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1899 · page 4

In the months of the lower orders, Newcastle English is, I freely admit, a very rugged and grotesque langue as unintelligible to the ears of a stranger as…

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The Storyteller. Storm-tossed. Chapter Ii. Childhood

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 4

Though these voyages did her health a great deal of good, yet, after our return from the Baltic, she said she would go to sea no more ; and she kept her word…

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