Floods and Loss of Life in Victoria
HEAVY rains have fallen in Victoria within the past few days, and further floods and loss of life are reported. Much property has been destroyed, and railway traffic interrupted…
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Floods & storms, 1891
79 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 4
Floods and Loss of Life
IT rained in Melbourne all Sunday and Monday night, with the result that the Yarra and other streams around Melbourne were rising, and there were fears of another flood. At…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Hayti. LONDON, Aug. 18
Heavy floods have occurred in Hayti. A bridge was suddenly washed away, and 80 persons who were standing on the bridge watching the flood waters were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Municipal Thunderstorm
THE proverbial serenity which characterises the procedure of the Council was broken in upon by a tropical thunderstorm on Thursday night, and some exceptionally breezy experiences were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 11 a.m. Heavy Rain
HEAVY rain fell in Sydney during last night and this morning. THE AUXILIARY SQUADRON. The seven warships of the auxiliary…
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ON last Friday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a thunderstorm passed over Crookwell, and for a short time the lightning was very vivid. During the…
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On Friday last (says the Braidwood Dispatch) when we had the severe squall in Braidwood the neighbourhood of Durran Durra especially came in for it…
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AT the second August meeting of the Council a lengthy letter was road from Mr. J. Ford with respect to some police court cases in which he was the defendant. Owing in part to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Spain. LONDON, Sep. 14
Disastrous floods have occurred in the south of Spain. Villages have been destroyed, oat many people drowned. Thousands of persona are homeless and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Municipal Storm. [To the Editor of the Burrangong Argus.]
SIR,—Will you allow me to sympathise with you in your recent trouble with our high and unimpeachable civic fathers arising out of a very simple and humourous article which appeared in your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods in Spain.—Two Thousand Persons Drowned. LONDON, Sept. 14
Two thousand persons are said to have lost their lives through the floods at Toledo, in Spain. Help to the distressed people is impracticable for the present, as the railways have…
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Reports of fearful destitution Continue to be received in reference to the floods in Spain. The people are suffering the greatest hardships. Van loads of dead were buried in trenches, a single…
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EFFECT.—To connect the Spanish flood of 1891 with the building of the great Armada in the middle of the sixteenth century would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods in Spain. LONDON, Sep. 19
The floods in Spain still continue. The rivers Tagus and Gaudalquiver, the two main arteries of the kingdom, have both overflowed their banks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in France. LONDON, Sept. 25
Disastrous floods are being experienced in France. The River Ardeché, in the province of the same name, overflowed its banks at Aubenas,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 10 a.m. Heavy Gales and Wreck
THERE was a heavy gale yesterday, with rain. It is also showery this morning. The ketch Jonathan, from the Tweed River, was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A terrific gale raged through Geelong on Friday night. At 9 o'clock the cyclone swept across the Barwon River from the gorge in the Barrabool Hills, levelling the…
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ON last Thursday afternoon one of the severest thunderstorms experienced here for some time occurred. The lightning was very vivid and tho peals of thunder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Storms in Atlantic. London, Oct, 13
The experience of the Cunard steamer in the Atlantic has been similar to that of the Hamburg American Company's express steamer Victoria Augusta. Aboard the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in Spain
THE subjoined details of the recent disastrous floods are furnished by the London correspondent of the Argus, under date September 18:—…
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