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

Floods & storms, 1891

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Snow Storm in America. LONDON, Dec. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 4

Heavy snowstorms have occurred in the United States. The railways in New England are snowed up…

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Storms off the Coast of Newfoundland. LONDON, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 3

Tremendous storms have occurred off the coast of Newfoundland, causing the loss of 100 fishing and other vessels…

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Heavy Rain at Reid's Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 6

ONE hundred nod, sixty-three points of rain fell in three hours on Tuesday morning at Reid's Flat making a total of 444 points for the present month; in consequence cur roads are in a bad…

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Heavy Rain and Floods

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 January 1891 · page 2

THE heaviest downpour of rain known in Yass for years fell on Friday night and Saturday morning. The rain commenced to fall steadily on Friday night about eight o'clock, and before…

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Remarkable Thunderstorm in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 February 1891 · page 2

NEVER before, so far as it on be remembered here, has such a remarkable explosion taken place as that which occurred during Monday's thunderstorm. Loud claps of thunder have…

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Floods in America. LONDON, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

Disastrous floods have occurred in the State of Chio, in the United States. A large number of families have been rendered homeless and 22 miles of railway have boon submerged…

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Severe Storm

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 June 1891 · page 2

A SEVERE southerly gale swept over the coast on Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by a heavy rainfall. In the city and suburbs the storm was exceptionally…

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Heavy Rain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 June 1891 · page 3

RAIN continued to fall incessantly on Tuesday and yesterday morning at 9 o'clock 192 additional points had been recorded at the Goulburn telegraph office, making a total of 464 points…

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The Weather and the Floods

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 June 1891 · page 4

RAIN has continued almost without intermission during the whole week; it was again heavy last night, and both the Mulwarree and the Wollondlily rose considerably. Although…

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Floods in America. LONDON, June 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 4

Great floods have occurred in the United States as the result of recent heavy rains. Large tracts of country in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Dakota are submerged. Many deaths from…

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Heavy Rains and Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 June 1891 · page 4

THE weather is still unsettled. There is, however, a hope that d change will take place shortly, as the wind veered round this morning from south east to west. If a strong breeze…

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Some Old-time Floods

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 June 1891 · page 3

As the chief subject of conversation just now is the weather and the floods, I have compiled the following, which may not be without interest to your readers as giving reliable…

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The Flood at Gundagai

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 2

THE "S. M. Herald" says: -- The boat which wont last night to the rescue of the mon who were in trees and surrounded by water on Kimo run, met with an accident, and two of the occupants, Harry…

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The Weather. Destructive Floods. the Murrumbidgee and Yass Rivers in Flood

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 2

THE weather during the past few weeks has been very wet. On Sunday weak heavy rain set in and continued showery all day Monday, and on Tuesday a very heavy fall took place, causing the river…

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Bungedore. Flood at Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 4

FOR the last week there has been almost incessant rain, which culminated in a heavy flood on Friday night. The creeks about here had been running pretty high, but about…

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The Flood at Wagga. Wagga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 4

For the second time in a period of six months Wagga has suffered a flood. In January last the Murrumbidgee here was 30 ft. 4 in. above summer level. At 10 o'clock this morning the…

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Great Flood in the Shoalhaven. Terara

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 4

The largest flood since 1874 is now upon us. The river came over in three places at 2.30 this morning, end the whole town was soon submerged to a depth of 3ft., the water rising…

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Disastrous Floods at Gundagai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 June 1891 · page 4

There is a terrible flood in the Murrumbidgee River. This morning it reached 36ft. 6in., or within 2ft. of the memorable flood of 1852, on which occasion the old township of Gundagai…

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The Flood at Yass

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

REPOUTS from Yass state that the Murrumbidgee there on Saturday was as high as ever known, and a considerable amount of damage has been done to Dr. Camphell's land about…

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Floods

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Wagga on Monday says:--The flood at Wagga is very severe. There have been a number of narrow escapes from drowning. The schools and…

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