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

Floods & storms, 1889

51 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 3

The Floods in South Australia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Reports are coming in from all parts of the damage done by the floods. The Broken Hill traffic will probably be suspended for a week, owing to the country…

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The Floods in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The area of yesterday's flood in Castlemaine was of many miles extent. The district presented a picture of desolation to-day. Fortunately, the first…

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Disastrous Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1889 · page 4

THE most disastrous floods that have occurred since 1854 have taken place at Castlemaine, involving loss of several lives and the destruction of thousands of pounds worth of property…

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Disastrous Floods in Victoria

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 2

THE most disastrous floods that have occurred since 1854 have taken place at Castleniaine, involving loss of several lives and the destruction of thousands of…

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Disastrous Floods. Railways Washed Away. (From the Evening News.)

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 2

MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY.-- On Tuesday afternoon a tremendous flood, accumpanied by loss of life and considerable damage to property, occurred at Castlemaine. Shortly after…

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Rains and Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

AT Castlemaine the rainfall has reached the unprecedented total of 5in. for three days. All. the creeks are running bankers, and much injury to property has been done by the floods. The latest…

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Terrible Gale in America. LONDON, Jan. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 6

New York telegrams give particulars of a terrible gale which has raged at Pittsburg, a town in Pennsylvanis, and built in an angle formed by the rivers Monongahels and…

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Terrible Cyclone in America. London, January 11

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1889 · page 3

Later intelligence states that the cyclone demolished a silk factory at Reading. Seventy of the employees were killed, the victims chiefly being girls. Many others…

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Storm on the English Coast. LONDON, March 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 March 1889 · page 4

A heavy storm has occurred on the coast of England. The Grimsby fishing fleet was almost destroyed, and 70 lives were lost…

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Great Floods in England. LONDON, March 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1889 · page 4

Disastrous floods have occurred in tile west of England. Taunton, Bristol, and Exeter are inundated, and railway lines and bridges have been washed away…

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The Floods in England. LONDON, March 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 March 1889 · page 2

The disastrous floods which occurred in the West of England are now subsiding, in the damage done to property in Bristol, which [?] partly inundated amounts to £40,000. Several…

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Disastrous Gales and Floods. a Village at Tonga Swept Into the Sea

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 April 1889 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Aukland to the S. M. Herald, says: -- The steamer Richmond which arrived on Tuesday night, brings news of additional wrecks at the Islands, and disastrous…

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Yesterday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 April 1889 · page 4

THE storm which visited Goulburn yesterday dispensed its favours very erratically as far us this district is concerned. At Baw Baw hardly sufficient to lay the dust fell, and in some parts…

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Storms and Wreeks. LONDON, April 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1889 · page 4

Severe storms are reported as having occurred on the coast of the States of Virginia and Maryland, in the United States of America, and numerous vessels have been wrecked…

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More Rains and Probable Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 4

Mr. Chas. Egeson, of the Government Observatory, whose forecast of the weather for the first part of this month proved to be remarkably correct, writes:—We are now entering upon the…

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Cyclone in America. LONDON, May 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 May 1889 · page 4

A disastrous cyclone has swept over several of the Eastern States of America, and Mr. P. T. Barnum's celebrated mammoth show was partially wrecked…

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Severe Storm in Europe. LONDON, May 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 May 1889 · page 2

Storms which have swept over Austria and the South of Germany have caused immense damage to the bridges and railways. There has also been great loss of life; cattle have been…

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The Floods in the Suburbs

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1889 · page 4

IN the suburbs the effects of Monday's storms were heavy—roads, drains, and bridges were swept away in numerous places. At Canterbury it is reported that three Chinese houses were…

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Terrific Storm. Four Days' Extraordinary Rain. Serious Floods in the Suburbs. Many Families Homeless. Suspension of Railway Traffic. Business at a Standstill. Telegraphic Communication Stopped. Heavy Sea Along the Coast

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 2

THE rain which set in on Friday morning and increased to a vigorous downpour during the afternoon of that day, which pelted "heavens hard" during the whole of Saturday. and with…

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Tremendous Floods in America.—enormous Destruction of Property and Loss of Life. London, June 1

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1889 · page 2

Terrible floods have taken place in the United States, extending over a vast area of country, and resulting in enormous loss of life. Heavy and continuous rains occurred in…

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