Heavy Floods
OUR exchanges of Wednesday states:-- The schooner Agnes, bound from Sydney to the Tweed River, became a total wreck on Wednesday morning, six miles north of Brunswick Heads…
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Floods & storms, 1890
104 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 6
The Floods
The flood on the Clarence is the highest yet known, exceeding that of 1887 by about a foot. Nearly the whole of Grafton was submerged, there being less than two…
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EXTENSIVE floods are reported from Queensland. A large part of Brisbane is under water; all the wharfs are submerged, the gas supply is out off, and the traffic on the railways stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Flood in the Macquarie. Waddington
The present is the greatest flood since that of 1867., The [?] up the Bell, and making the paddocks fronting the town [?] sheet of water. Bell Bridge is completely submerged. The [?] rose within 30ft. of…
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The body of one the [?] in-the fork of a tree in the Eulah Creek. The motherland three children are missing. The house was completely carried away. [?] took…
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The Calipee has been visited by the highest known flood, exceeding the grant 1887 flood of about a loot, and reacting exactly 27ft. at Grafton. Unlike former floods, the riverg, owing to the…
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GRAFTON, Monday 4.57 p.m (delayed).-- The river at Grafton is now up to 20ft. 1 in., and rising steadily at the rate of 1in. per hour. At Copmanhurst the river is now up 49ft. 3 in, and rising…
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Floods continued to rise all Wednesday night, and after reaching a height altogether unprecedented commenced slowly to recede on Thursday, but the fail up to night was very alight. The…
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The river is slowly falling. It rose till late last night. Rescue parties were in readiness with boats. A telegram from Wee waa was received requesting boats, and a boat with four hands has…
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The floods are now subsiding here. No mails have arrived since Tuesday last, the latest Herald that arrived being last Saturday’s date. The weather is now fine…
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A CORRESPONDENT writing from Brisbane on the 13th instant, says:--The one absorbing topic here at present is the flood, the highest over known in Brisbane…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday.—A terrific storm occurred at Emu Park last night. A survey party, under the Government Surveyor, Mr. Richardson, were camped in the scrub just off…
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St. George (Q.), Wednesday.--The river is rising. It has just broken over the western bank, the town side is safe for the present. Communication with Surat on both sides is interrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. Terrific Cyclone in America. LONDON, March 28
A disastrous cyclone has occurred in the United States. Its worst effects were felt in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois, where the destruction of property was immense…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fearful Hurricane. the Flood the Highest Ever Known. Loss of Life. (From the “Echo’s” Correspondent.) Townsville, Wednesday Morning
The hurricane which commenced at 8 o’clock on Sunday night continued for 12 hours. It raised all night. On Monday the wind increased to a terrific gale, accompanied with heavy rain…
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A cyclone storm of the most violent character last night swept over the northern portion of the State of Kentucky. In its progress lay the city of Louisville, the capital of the State, and the…
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RECENT cablegrams report that on the night of Thursday last a cyclonic storm of the most violent character swept over the northern portion of tile state of Kentucky. In its…
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Owing to the extraordinary rainfall the rivers Arkansas and Mississippi are in high flood, and the lowlands adjacent to these rivers are under water…
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The tremendous rainfall in the Darling Downs and Maranoa districts, just across the New South Wales border, reported a week or so ago, has swollen all the feeders at the head of the…
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A cyclonic storm of the most violent character last night swept over the northern portion of the State of Kentucky. In its progress lay the city of Louisville the capital of the State, and the sixteenth city of the…
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