Tremendous Floods in America. London, June 1
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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Floods & storms, 1889
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Tremendous Floods in America. 8000 Persons Drowned. LONDON, June 1
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 pennsylvania…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Floods in America.—further Details. London, June 3
Later details from the scene of the disaster in the Pittsburgh district state that the residents of Johns- town received timely warning that the reservoir was unsafe, and were further told that their best means…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Floods in America. Damage Estimated at £8,000,000. 1500 People Burned to Death. London, June 3
LATER details from the scene of the disaster in the Pittsburgh district state that the residents of Johnstown received timely warning that the reservoir was unsafe, and were further told that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods in America. LONDON, June 4
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal burst its banks owing to the pressure of water, and 20 miles of the Coburn-Lewisburg railway were completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Floods in America. Appalling Loss of Life. Nine Thousand Persons Drowned. London, June 1
Terrible floods have taken place in the United States, extending over a vast area of country, and resulting in enormous loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Floods in America
Authentic statistics give the late population of the area of country affected by the recent inundations in and around Johnstown (Penneylvannia) as 55,000. Registry offices have been opened for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by Cable. The Floods in America. LONDON, June 7
The fund which has been opened in the United States for the relief of the sufferers by the great floods in the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia amounts to 1,500,000 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Great Floods in America. LONDON, June 5
As testimony of the appalling loss of life it is stated that out of a family of 29 only one survived. Another survivor has buried 14 relatives. Many families are wholly extinct…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in Pennsylvania. LONDON, June 8
Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded to President Harrison a message of sympathy with the American people in the terrible calamity which has befallen the citizens of Johnstown and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Terrible Flood in America. LONDON, June 10
An inquiry held concerning the bursting of the reservoir in pennsylvania has resulted in a verdict of criminal negligence on the put of the owners of the reservoir. The lives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Various Colonies
Tasmania is being visited with a gale and heavy rains, and floods are reported in many places. The River Murray at Albury is 12ft. above summer level and the adjacent land is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Floods in Victoria
NEWS of floods, with much danger to life, is to hand from all parts of the northern district but the only fatality as yet known occurred at Elmore on Thursday two young ladies being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Johnstown Floods
Auckland, Sunday.—San Francisco papers to June 1 by the Mariposa, which arrived here to-day, contain some particulars of the Johnstown floods, but the full details of the disaster had…
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SAN FRANCISCO papers to June 1 by the Mariposa, contain some particulars of the Johnstown floods, but the full details of the disaster had not arrived whoa the mail…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Cyclone in Texas. LONDON, July 6
A terrible cyclone has swept over the State of Texas, in the United States of Ameria, causing damage to property to the extent of 2,000,00Odol…
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SINCE the Peruvian earthquake of August, 1868, the world has seen no disaster of such frightful magnitude, accompanied by such pitiable incidents, as occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Floods in China. LONDON, July 27
News from China states that the Yellow River has burst its banks in the province of Shantung, and caused disastrous floods, which submerged an extensive area of country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclone in Southern Hungary. LONDON, July 29
The southern portion of Hungary has been visited by a disastrous cyclone, which has caused serious loss of life and damage to property. Twenty-one mills, situated on the banks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drought and Flood
THE waters of a violent Nile were drained off, by menus of lock-canals and dykes, into vast artificial lakes, and there remained to meet the wants of a dry year. When…
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