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

Floods & storms, 1892

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Flood and Fire

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 June 1892 · page 3

LONDON, June 7.--Fuller particulars have been received regarding the disastrous floods and fire which have occurred in Titusville, Pennsylvania. After the oil…

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Cyclone in America. London, June 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 June 1892 · page 2

The town of Galva, in the State of Illinois, has been demolished by a cyclone. Twenty persons were killed…

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A Wedded Widow; or the Love That Lived Chapter I the Coming Storm

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 June 1892 · page 4

"I discharge you !'' she whimpered, beakly, so filled with rage that she could scarcely speak. " I cast you off' I wash my hands off you! Do you understand…

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

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 June 1892 · page 4

Madolin uttered a quick little exclamation of joy, and put both hands to her bosom. "My father!" she breathed out,…

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A Disastrous Storm

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 June 1892 · page 2

LONDON, June 17.--Disastrous tornadoes, entailing great loss of life and destruction of property, have been experienced in the Jutted States and in Canada. At Sherbourne…

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A Financial Storm in London

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 August 1892 · page 4

"THINGS seem looking a bit brighter, sir," remarked a cheerful city clerk to an elderly man in the compartment of a " business train" one morning in…

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A Financial Storm in London

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1892 · page 1

"THINGS seem looking a bit brighter, air," remarked a cheerful city clerk to an elderly man in the compartment of a "business train" one morning in…

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Fatal Result of the Gale. One Boy Killed and Another Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1892 · page 2

DURING the gale on Sunday night a sad catastrophe occurred at Cable's Siding, which is 12 miles beyond Marulan. The sleeping apartments of a house occupied by Mr. John Dyer, a small farmer,…

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Thunderstorms

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 September 1892 · page 2

A SMART thunderstorm passed over the city shortly after one o'clock yesterday. There was a considerable fall of hail, followed by a heavy shower of rain.. It is reported that…

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Violent Storm. Considerable Damage Done to Property

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 4

ONE of the fiercest equinoctial gales ever experienced in this part of the colony visited Goulburn on Friday night, and is still raging, but it has abated somewhat in violence. The downfall of rain which…

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Terrific Storm. Damage to Property

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 September 1892 · page 2

ON Friday night and Saturday Goulburn was visited by perhaps the fiercest equinoctial gale experienced in this part of the colony within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. Heavy…

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Saturday's Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

ALL the coastal shipping that arrived on Monday report meeting with fearful seas both north and south of Sidney; but the only serious casuality known of at present occurred to the barquentine…

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Heavy Gale in Sydney

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

SPEAKING of the gale in Sydney on Saturday last the Echo says: --The gale which passed over the city last night and early this morning was one of the fiercest that has been known…

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The Storm at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

CROOKWELL, Monday.—Very rough weather has been experienced here during the past week, and on Friday night a perfect gale of wind from the south, with rain, occurred, causing considerable damage…

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Killed During the Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 2

THE Parramatta district coroner held an inquest on Saturday touching the death of a married woman named Margaret Keddie, who was killed by a falling tree at Eastwood during the storm. James Keddie,…

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A Terrific Storm. Destruction of Life and Property. Rivers in High Flood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1892 · page 4

MONDAY'S Sydney Morning Herald says:—Not for 16 years has there been any user approach to the violence attained by the storm of last Saturday morning. Whether the furious storm of Saturday…

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The Late Storm

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1892 · page 2

All the coastal shipping that arrived at Sydney on Monday report meeting with fearful seas both north and south of Sydney; but the only serious casualty…

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Floods in Cooma

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 October 1892 · page 4

THE heaviest rainfall that has visited Cooma or the district of Manaro for many months was experienced on Sunday night. It continued throughout the night with unabated energy, and when…

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Cable News. Disastrous Floods in China. London, Oct. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 October 1892 · page 3

Advices received at San Francisco from China state that the River Hoang Ho has broken its hanks, and caused disastrous floods. Fifty thousand inhabitants have been drowned…

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LONDON, Thursday. Disastrous Floods in Costa Rica

Goulburn Herald · Friday 11 November 1892 · page 4

DISASTROUS floods are reported from Costa Rica, Central America. A large area of country has been submerged, railways swept away, and many plantations completely…

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