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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1874

9 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Great Storm and Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 2

A FEW days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippett-lane a chimney-stack fell, killing…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life in England

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 February 1874 · page 4

A FEW days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippe[?]t lane a chimney-stack…

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Storms and Floods

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 February 1874 · page 2

A SUCCESSION of severe storms from the south passed over the city on Sunday morning, and were accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, which out up the streets of the city to a considerable extent, and…

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Heavy Thunder and Hail Storm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 3

The occurrence of at heavy thunderstorm at this season of the year is very extraordinary. Yet we have had such a visitation in this district on Monday morning last…

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Tremendous Floods in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 8

By the latest accounts from the valley of the Mississippi it appears that one-fourth of Louisiana and a great portion of the…

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The Louisiana Flood.—the Greatest Calamity of the Century

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 August 1874 · page 4

HENRY G. CROWELL of Massachusetts, who visited New Orleans as a commissioner for the purpose of ascertaining what use was being made of the fund contributed by the…

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A Fearful Flood.—over 200 Lives Lost. Pittsburg, July 27

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 8

A MOST destructive storm swept over this city least night. The rain poured through the streets from the neighbouring hills, and the Union Depot was inundated with water…

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Thunderstorms

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 8

The precise or entire part which a thunderstorm performs in the mechanism of the aereal heavens is somewhat obscure. Enough, however, can he gleaned…

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The Late Gale and Supposed Loss of the Barque Eleanor with All Hands

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 October 1874 · page 4

THE LATE GALE AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE BARQUE ELEANOR WITH ALL HANDS.— It is with much regret we have to state that but little hopes are entertained that the…

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