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

Floods & storms, 1900

181 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 10

Lost in Tse Flood Waters Mudgee

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

A fatal drowning accident is reported from Long Creek, by which a girl Darned Plummer, 18 years of age, a servant at Endicott's Long Creek Hotel,…

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The Lachlan Flooded. Forbes Surrounded by Water. Forbes

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

The flood water, reached here at 5 o'clock this morning, and rose with amazing rapidity, It is now about 14in higher than the flood in 1891. The…

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Snow and Floods. Stories of Distress

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

By very slow degress the snow about Bathurst is disappearing. Yesterday's sun made a great difference to the size of the deposits which…

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The Macquarie Flood Subsiding. Dubbo

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

The Macquarie River here rose to 84ft, last night the highest since 1892. The river flat west of the town was flooded by tho bywash water, within a few yards of…

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Flood in the Macquarie. Dubbo

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

The Macquarie River at Dubbo was very big on Sunday. The water was up to the banks, and some portions of the river flat were under water. The…

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The Forbes Flood. the Town Surrounded. Forbes

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

Owing to the interruptions on the telegraph lines no news has been received for a couple of days, the first through being from Cowra, giving the…

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Snow and Floods

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

It is now nearly a week since the snow has been present in Bathurst. It is slowly—very slowly—disappearing, and the roads are beginning to assume…

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Notes and Notions. Experts' Reports—early Closing—a Flood of Prevarication

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

A great deal of solemn scorn has been thrown upon the Sydney City Council because it paid £1,000 to one of its officers to go to Europe and…

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The Flood at Dubbo

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 2

Tho Dubbo Liberal contains tho following account:—The Macquarie Valley narrowly having this week a flood unequalled during past 80. years the weather on…

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Floods in the West. the Flood at Warren

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 2

This morning Mr. Alfred Rigby received a letter from his brother Fred, who is at Warren superintending for the firm the erection of the Royal and Commercial Hotels…

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The Snow Storm

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 2

The heavy fall of snow on Thursday week put a stop to nearly all business. The traffic on the railroad was disorganised, the mails being 12 hours…

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The Flood at Sofala

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 8

At Sofala, the Turon river, between 10 and 12 o'clock on Friday, rose 3ft. on hour, Those who are interested in dredges were…

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The Late Snow Storm. Perished in the Snow. Katoomba

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 2

Two brothers named James and Thomas Barton, residents of Mount Victoria, left that town on Monday, the 2nd instant, lot a few days' shooting down the valley of the Grose. Not retaining on Friday…

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The Forbes Flood. Forbes

National Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 3

The water baa subsided [?] the town, bat the river still remains about a foot from the highest level. Now that the water is away the streets and roads…

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Flood at Warren. Warren

National Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1900 · page 3

Owing to the railway line banking I up the back water, four-fifths of the town is under water. The flood on the western side is fully 1ft. lower…

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The Cold Weather. Effects of the Late Storm

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1900 · page 2

BLACKMAN'S FLAT, Friday. -- The country round here is in a pitiable condition since the recent heavy snow storm. Trees innumerable are torn up by the roots, and on places…

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Lessons From the Recent Storm. an Architect's View

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 20 July 1900 · page 6

Mr. H. R. Goyder, architect, of Katoomba, writes:--There is no doubt that the exceptional severity of the recent snowstorm has been a salutary lesson to all architects and builders…

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Flooded Out

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 20 July 1900 · page 8

Mr. Bob McRac, Well-known to nearly all Mudgeeites writing from Warren, gives a lively account of the floods, The genial Robert has…

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More Floods. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 20 July 1900 · page 3

It rained continuously throughout this morning. Mr. Russell, Government Astronomer, anticipates another small flood in the…

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The Late Storm

Leader · Saturday 21 July 1900 · page 5

We are sorry to hear that the damage of the late storm at his smithy cost Mr. Wenban about £15, but he has now completely restored the building, and with his…

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