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

Floods & storms, 1888

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Violent Storm

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 January 1888 · page 2

THE immediate neighbourhood of Yass was visited with heavy storms on last Friday afternoon ; and, although no rain fell in the town, O'Brien's Swamp, which is only 2½ miles…

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Heavy Storm at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1888 · page 4

YASS, Tuesday.—A terrific storm passed over Yass this evening at 7 o'clock, and was accompanied by the heaviest fall of rain known for the past 20 years. Cooma-street was submerged,…

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Another Heavy Storm. Boys Sail Down Cooma-street in a Case

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 2

AFTER the severe storm on Saturday afternoon the weather continued dull and muggy. All through Sunday and Monday, and during the early part of Tuesday afternoon, there were…

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Great Floods in China. LONDON, Jan. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 January 1888 · page 3

Intelligence has been received to the effect that a great overflow of the HoangHo, or Yellow River, in China, has taken place, inundating a large tract of country…

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Floods in China. LONDON, Jan. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 4

Four thousand workmen who were engaged in building a breakwater at the mouth of the River Hoang Ho, in China, have been engulfed by the late disastrous floods in that river…

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The Great Storm in Western America. LONDON, Jan. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 2

The "blizzard" or storm of wind and snow which caused such destruction of life and property in the Western States of America, completely isolated several small towns by its ravages. The…

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Disastrous Floods in Western Australia

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 February 1888 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from PERTH to the S. M. Herald dated Monday, states:-- The Government resident at Geraldton telegraphed yesterday to the Colonial Secretary from Walkaway station,…

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Queanbeyan. Police COURT—Thursday, February 9th. Before Alderman Gale, M.P., J.P.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 4

William Sherd, living at Bungendore, who did not answer to the charge preferred against him by Constable Park on last Tuesday, for making use of obscene language, was brought before the…

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Destructive Cyclone in America. LONDON, Feb. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 February 1888 · page 4

Intelligence has been received bore from low York to the effect that the settlement of Mount Vernon, in the Stale of Illinois, was visited by a disastrous cyclone on Sunday afternoon…

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Distructive Cyclone in America. London, Feb. 20

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 February 1888 · page 4

Intelligence has been received here from New York to the effect that the settlement of Mount Vernon, in the State of Illinois, was visited by a disastrous cyclone on Sunday…

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Destructive Cyclone in America. London, February 20

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 February 1888 · page 3

Intelligence has been received here I from New York to the effect that the settlement of Mount Vernon, in the State of Illinois, was visited by a disastrous…

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Floods in Queensland

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 February 1888 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Brisbane states between 3.30 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. on Saturday, 20 inches 72 points of rain fell at Rockhampton. The greater part of the town was under water,…

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Terrible Gales in England. LONDON, March 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 2

Terrible gales raged yesterday in different parts of England and along the coast. The extent of the damage has not yet been ascertained; but already several wrecks are reported…

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Great Floods in Germany. LONDON, March 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 4

Disastrous floods have occurred in Germany, by the overflow of the Rivers Elbe and Oder. A vast territory is inundated, and the loss of human life, and cattle and other stock, which…

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The Floods in Germany. LONDON, March 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

Through the floods in East Prussia 30,000 persons have been rendered homeless. The losses are estimated at a hundred million marks. Ten thousand cattle wore drowned…

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Heavy Gales in England. LONDON, March 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 6

Severe storms are raging throughout England, and exceptionally high tides have occurred on the west and south coasts. March 31…

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The Floods in Germany. LONDON, April 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 6

The floods, which have caused vast destruction of property and loss of life in Germany, are now subsiding…

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The Floods In Germany. London, April 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 4

In accordance with the suggestion of Sir Edward Malet, British Ambassador at Berlin, the Right Honorable Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, has opened a fund for the…

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The Floods in Germany. LONDON, April 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1888 · page 4

Four hundred thousand persons have been rendered destitute by the floods in Germany…

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The Floods in Germans. London

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 4

It is now known that 100,000 persons have been rendered homeless and destitute through the recent great floods in Germany…

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