The Floods in Sydney. Marrickville Submerged. SYDNEY
It has been raining all the day, and a heavy shower is now (4.15 p.m.) falling. Up to the present time over 18 inches has fallen since Friday morning…
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Floods & storms, 1889
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The Sydney Floods. Railway Accident at Muswellbrook. Penrith Flooded: People Retreating. More Cases of Drowning. 26 Inches Fallen at Ryde. SYDNEY
News comes from all parts of the coast districts of the great damage to property, and in some caset loss of life, due to the great and unparalleled floods which have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent Sydney Floods. Rain Censed and Floods Abating. SYDNEY
The floods in most parts of the colony have abated, and the weather is now fine. The river at Maitland overflowed and the water rushed down High-street,…
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A young woman named Fleming was drowned in the floods at Maitland. A boat, containing her father and hersetf, who were escaping from their house,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. 8000 Persons Drowned. Terrible Floods in America. Villages Swept Away. A Town Wiped Out of Existence. A Huge Reservoir Bunrts. Seven Miles of Railway Demolished. 1100 Bodies Recovered. [By Cable.] London, Saturday Recovered
Disastrously heavy rains have fallen throughout the week in Pennsylvania and the neighboring American States. Tho downpour was so great and widespread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. Over 35,000 DROWNED. 15000 Boasted Alive. Horrible Crucity or [?]oughs. Wholesale Murder and Pillage. 25,000,000 Dollars' Worth or Property Destroyed. The Floods Abating. [By Cable.] London
The floods in Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, are spreading devastation over the country for miles round. The scenes are described as simply awful. The crowds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition "Miner" Office, 5 p.m. the Pittsburg Floods. The latest Particulars. Another Estimate of the loss. The Looters Lynched. [By Cable.] London, Monday (midnight)
The cablegraphed accounts received to night by the morning papers, and those appearing in this evening's papers, respecting the floods at Pittsburg vary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Urana. Great Loss of Sheep. SYDNEY
Further information comes from Wagga respecting the floods near Urana. The biggest known lake in that vicinity, Lake Cullavel, ovarflowed, and the water ran…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2nd Edition [?]" O[?]ce, 5 p.m. the Pittsburg Floods. 3000 Bodies Recovered. The Total Damage. LONDON, Tuesday (midnight)
Up to the present 3000 bodies have been recovered from the flood at Johnstown near Pittsburg. The total damage done is now estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Latest. the Pittsburg Floods. The Loss Greater than Supposed. The Relief Fund. [By Cable.] London
There are good grounds to fear that the destruction of life by the recent floods in Pennsylvania has been even greaser than the highest estimate yet given. A most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition "Miner" Office, 5 p.m. the Pittsburg Floods. The Correct Loss of Life. [By Cable.] London
All the survivors from the Pennsylvania flood have now registered themselves; and, taking this number from the known population of the district prior to the…
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The Pennsylvania flood relief fund now amounts to half a million pounds sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pittsburg Floods: The Official Inquiry. LONDON
The official inquiry into the bursting of the reservoir at near Johnstown, in Pennsylvania, causing the death of 13,000 people, has resulted in a verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Remnants of the Flood. LONDON
The American (United States) Government has voted a sum of a million dollars to effect the sanitation of Johnstown, over which the floods recently swept, and from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Victoria. Two Ladies Drowned. A Priest has a Narrow Escape. MELBOURNE
In consequence of the recent continuous rains a great portion of Victoria, especially in the north and north-west, is flooded. A large amount of damage has been done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Murray in Flood. MELBOURNE
The River Murray at Albury is 12 feet above summer level. The land near to the banks is flooded, and the residents in many places have been compelled to leave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Gale in Tasmania. Much Damage Done. HOBART
Tasmania is being visited by a terrific south-west gale. Telegraph lines have been swept down in all directions, railway traffic has been stopped, and various…
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Edward Russell, a young man, 25 years of age, employed by the Railway Department on the line between Murchison and Rushworth, while removing flood debris,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mind of His Own. The Governor and the Johnstown Flood. BRISBANE
His Excellency Sir Henry Norman, the new Governor, has positively declined to preside at an entertainment which is to be given at the Gaiety Theatre on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in West Maitland. SYDNEY
An influential deputation has waited upon the Minister for Works, and urged that steps should be taken to mitigate the effects of floods in West Maitland. Mr…
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