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

Floods & storms, 1892

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A Storm at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 January 1892 · page 3

CROOKWELL, Wednesday.—During the greater part of yesterday. rain continued falling, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The rainfall was very heavy,…

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A Great Storm

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 January 1892 · page 3

OCCURRED at Bowral on Saturday last between one and two o'clock, when hailstones, or perhaps we should any lumps of ice, fell in size as large as three inches in circumference…

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Last Week's Storm

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 2

UP to the time of our going to press on Tuesday night last we reported heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday, with every appearance of a continuance. During…

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Melody Floods the Meadows

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 7

Was there ever heard on sea or land such enrapturing music as the frogs are giving us? And then their evening concerts What power of tongue or pen…

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Violent Wind Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 3

ON last Thursday evening Yass was visited with another violent wind storm, though not quite so destructive as the late cyclone. Shortly after 5 o'clock the dust storm could, he seen coming over…

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Heavy Floods. Grafton

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 April 1892 · page 3

A heavy gale from the southwards has been blowing since yesterday morning and during the whole of to-day. It was accompanied by torrents of rain, which was the heaviest down…

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Drought and Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1892 · page 3

HEAVY losses have been entailed upon the farmers of the Grafton by the flood, this being, to many of them, the third crop ruined by floods within five years…

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Terrible Floods in America. London, April 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 4

The floods in the State of Alabama, America, were far more disastrous than at first reported. Later particulars from New York state that about 250 persons were drowned in the flood waters, and…

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Cable Intelligenc. the American Floods. London, May 20

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 May 1892 · page 2

The Hoods caused by the overflow of the Rivers Missouri and Mississippi have resulted in great injury to property, and also to the crops. Many people have been drowned…

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The American Floods. London, May 20

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 May 1892 · page 3

The floods caused by the overflow of the Rivera Missouri and Mississippi have resulted in great injury to property, and also to the crops. Many people have been…

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Cable News. the Floods in the United States. London, May 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 May 1892 · page 4

The city of Arkansas, in the State of that name, has been inundated by the floods. The place is now under water, and a great loss of life is reported in consequence. The floods have stopped the…

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Cable News. Disastrous Cyclone in America. London, May 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 May 1892 · page 4

A disastrous cyclone has swept over the State of Kansas, in America. A large portion of the town of Wellington was wrecked. The local Opera House, four newspaper offices, a foundry, and four…

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Floods in America. London, May 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1892 · page 2

Alarming reports continue to arrive from the United States with reference to the floods in certain parts of the territory. The latest is that 100 villages along the valley of…

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The Cyclone in the Mauritius. 1500 Persons Killed—thousands Wounded and Homeless. Damage Estimated at Twenty-eight Million Rupees

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 June 1892 · page 8

ALBANY, Tuesday.—On April 29 a most destructive hurricane passed over the Mauritius, and annihilated one-third of the city of Port Louis,…

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The Cyclone in the Mauritius. 1500 Persons Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1892 · page 8

ALBANY, Tuesday.—On April 29 a most destructive hurricane passed over the Mauritius, and annihilated one-third of the city of Port Louis, razing to the ground countless…

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The Cyclone in the Mauritius. London, June 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 June 1892 · page 3

Further information from the Mauritius states that the number of deaths caused by the recent hurricanes in the island will probably exceed 2000. The Government of Mauritius propose to raise a…

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The Floods in America. London, June 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 June 1892 · page 4

The official minimum estimate, of the damage done by the recent floods in Kansas State and Kansas City, and in the country between Kansas and New Crlcane, is £10,000,000…

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Terrible Cyclone in the Mauritius

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 June 1892 · page 2

ON April 29 a most destructive hurricane passed ever the Mauritius, and annihilated one-third of the city of Port Louis, razing to the ground countless houses and public…

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A Wedded Widow or the Love That Lived Chapter 1. the Coming Storm

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 June 1892 · page 4

Madolin had not spoken. Her eyes were still on the restless ocean. Great, wistful, dreamy eyes they were, too, that could melt and soften to violet blueness…

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American Storms

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 June 1892 · page 2

LONDON, June 6.--Latest reports from America state that the total damage done by the storms and Roods in Kansas and Missouri amounts to £750,000…

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