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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1901

36 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2

Heavy Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon and evening a storm passed over the Lower Clarence, accompanied with heavy wind in places. The storm was heaviest below Maclean. About Harwood considerable…

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Snow Storm in Russia, London

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 5

A TERRIBLE blizzard has raged for a week in the south of Russin. Six trains containing 5000 passengers were snowbound at Razdvelnaia. and the passengers…

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Latest Telegrams. Terrific Cyclone in Adelaide. Unprecedented Dust Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 5

SYDNEY, MONDAY.—A terrific cyclone passed over Adelaide. Many houses were completely wrecked, and in one case a family was carried right across the road in its tenement…

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Sydney Flooded

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 2

THE rainfall ia Sydney on Monday night last was the heaviest ever experienced in the city, 240 points falling in an hour. Many parts of the city were flooded. In King-street, between…

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Equinoctial Gales

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 8 February 1901 · page 2

Few ideas are more firmly rooted in the popular mind than the notion that the equinoxes are times when severe gales are to be expected. Lost Friday the sun…

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Disastrous Bush Fires. Terrifie. Cyclone in Melbourne. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 5

A disastrous bush firs broke out at Mount Pleasant in South Australia yesterday, Hundreds of sheep, and largo quantities of grass and feneing were destroyed. Bush fires are also raging in various…

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Galveston Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 3

A COMPLETE study of the losses caused by the storm at Galveston shows that the damage amounted to about 17,058,275dol. The largest losses were in residences and in household…

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Destructive Storm. Several Buildings Damaged

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 4

A DESTRUCTIVE storm, accompanied by wind of cyclonic force and terrific rain, occurred at an early hour on Tuesday evening. The day had been…

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Severe Thunderstorm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 2

The excessive heat of the early part of the week culminated in a heavy thunderstorm on Tuesday evening. It broke on the city from the westward, accompanied by terrific…

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In the Storm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 7

My child, your hero may not be, In truth, a hero all the time; Remember, it must chance that he shall still have rugged steeps to climb…

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Floods in Fiji

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 8

A REPORT on February 21, says:—"The weather lately has been almost unbearable. Probably 1901 will provide the record for heat. Close, calm, maggy days have been the rule, with hot…

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An Antarctic Cyclone. Great Storm and Floods in Victoria

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

THE rainfall which swept over Melbourne with penetrating persistence since Saturday proves to be general throughout Victoria. This unexpected…

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Floods in Melbourne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

It was reported from Melbourne on Tuesday that a rainstorm returned with redoubled violence. The wind howled, and the water came down in sheets. For hours the downfall continued. The streets…

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An Alarming Prediction. a Deluge Next December

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 6

On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in tbe British Museum, is an inscription of surpassing interest…

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A Violent Wind Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 3

THE following incident (says a New York writer) is vouched for as having occurred during a wind storm, which Jersey. Mrs. Walter P…

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After This, "The Deluge."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 June 1901 · page 2

An Irishman might say, the world is full of rare books, so often do we hear of new ones. All the same, there are rare books, and in regard to some of them one can feel grateful…

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An Alarming Prediction. A Deluge Next December

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 June 1901 · page 2

On one of the Babylonian tablets exhumed from the ancient city of Nineveh, and now in the British Museum, is an inscription of…

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The Recent Gale. Experience of the City of Grafton. 71 Hours From Heads to Heads. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

THE City of Grafton arrived from the Clarence yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock after a passage from the Clarence Heads of 71 hours. The…

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Shipping in the Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 2

THE machinery of the Manly broke down at a particularly dangerous spot for a steamer to be helpless in a heavy sea, and the vessel narrowly escaped being driven ashore at Middle Head, It was…

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A Mud Storm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 2 August 1901 · page 3

Some extraordinary weather was recently experienced at Tient-sin. For two days (says the P. and T. TIMES) there was a yellow darkness that brought back London in November; then…

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