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

Floods & storms, 1898

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The Storm in the Gulf of Finland. London, Feb. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 4

The remainder of the fishermen who were carried out to sea in the Gulf of Finland when the ice broke away during a great storm have been rescued…

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Damage by the Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 4

TIE Minister for Works, Mr. J. H. Young, says the reports received by his department lead him to believe that the losses and damage caused to roads and…

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Floods at Pambula. Phenomenal Rainfall. Great Damage to Property

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 February 1898 · page 2

Pambula, Tuesday.--Never before in this district within the memory of the oldest inhabitant has such a rainfall been seen as that of the last few days, 26½in--a year's fall--all…

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Wind Storm at Carrathool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 2

CARRATHOOL, Monday.—A terrific gale, accompanied by rain, thunder, lightning, and clouds of date, came from the north-west about 4 p.m., carrying everything before it. The verandah at…

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Cyclone in the Comoro Islands. London, March 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1898 · page 4

The Comoro Islands, in the Mozambique Channel, have boon devastated by a cyclone. Many of the inhabitants were killed…

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Heavy Gale in Britain. London, March 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

A heavy gale has swept over the coasts of Great Britain, accompanied by a great snowstorm. The railways were blocked, and there were many wrecks, with loss of life…

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Gales in the North Sea. 45 Fishermen Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

Terrific weather has prevailed in the English Channel and the North Sea Forty-five fishermen have been drowned off the Lofoden Islands, Norway…

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Harmston's Menagerie in a Storm

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 4

THE Eurimbla arrived at the A.U.S.N. company's wharf recently, completing a voyage from Brisbane which has seldom been excelled for bad weather…

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Heavy Gale in Sydney and Newcastle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 2

A HEAVY gale blew along the coast on Thursday and Friday, being accompained on the first day with very heavy rain, no less than six inches being recorded in Sydney up to 9 o'clock on Friday morning…

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Storms and Shipwrecks

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 May 1898 · page 2

A HEAVY gals blew along the coast on Thursday and Friday, bring accompanied on the first day with very heavy rain, no less than 6 Inches being recorded in Sydney up to nine…

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The Weather. a Disastrous Gale

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 2

ALTHOUGH there was every indication of a heavy fall of rain on Thursday last, we are sorry to say the storm passed over here with comparatively…

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Storms and Shipwrecks. Terrible Shipping Disasters. a Record of Wrecks. Wreck of the Maitland. Thirty Persons Drowned. Foundering of the Merksworth. Nine Seamen Perish

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 3

The report that the steamer Maitland had gone ashore on the rugged coast above Broken Bay was confirmed by the messages received in Sydney on Saturday…

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The Late Gale

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 May 1898 · page 2

Captain Bentley, of the Sydney Under-writers' Association, made an examination of the vessels ashore at Nelson's Bay on Friday, and reported as follows to the underwriters:—…

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Another Victim of the Late Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 June 1898 · page 1

IT is regarded as pretty certain that the crew of the Sydney-owned schooner J. G. Kondio were lost in the gales of the 7th to 10th instant. On Tuesday also another death had to be added to the list of…

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The Weather. Heavy Rain at Murrumbateman

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 June 1898 · page 2

SUNDAY last was very close, stormy clouds hanging about until night time when rain set in, showers continuing to fall all night. At Murrumbateman it rained in torrents early in…

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Thunderstorms

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 July 1898 · page 4

ACCORDING to a recent lecture by a well-known scientist, the safest course for a human being is to get thoroughly wet. Franklin remarked that he could…

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Terrific Wind Storm. Snow and Hail

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 2

SATURDAY last was one of the hottest days we have had for some time. After sunset a great change took place a cold wind springing up, bringing heavy clouds from the north west…

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A Storm

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

ON Saturday night between ten and eleven o’clock a violent gale passed over the town making its effects felt to no uncertain degree. At Mr. H. Templeton's residence the roof was…

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Terrific Storm

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

THE residents of Marrumbarrah and district get a terrible shock last Saturday night, when a wind storm, accompanied by a little rain, passed…

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A Severe Storm. 120 Fishermen Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 September 1898 · page 4

Great destruction has been caused by a severe storm to a fishing fleet off Memel, a seaport town at the mouth of the Dange, in the province of East Prussia…

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