The Saxby Storm in America
A fearful storm occurred in America on 4th October. In Albany, and some distance westward on the Central Railroad, trains were delayed and culverts were washed away. The…
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Floods & storms, 1870
194 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 10
Wallis' Creek Floodgates
It may have been noticed in our report of the proceedings at the West Maitland Borough Council on Friday night (published in our issue of Saturday), that reference was made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rockhampton. Calamitous Floods at Clermont. Loss of Eight Lives. Cyclone and Loss of Life at Bowen. Monday night
[Empire.]—Floods are still rising, on the Fitzroy River, and the waters have reached within a short distance of the highest flood marks.—Most disastrous news has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane. Disastrous Floods. Monday, 10.50 p.m
[Herald.]—On Munday last, at midnight, a disastrous flood suddenly swept Over Clermont, carrying away houses, fences, and furniture. In an hour nearly five feet of water was running in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in South Australia
The Adelaide Observer of the 29th January says that from all parts of the province information had been received, showing how general and heavy had been the late rainfall. At Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallis' Creek Floodgates
After the lapse of one year and a few days from the laying of the first stone, the Wallis' Creek floodgates are completed. We say completed, because though some few days' work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fearful Floods at Rockhampton. (From the Bull[?]tin, February 5)
We have received the following particulars of the downpour at Cawarral from a man who came in from there on Thursday. He and his mate were camped in a bumpy on the other side…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods at Clermont. (From the Evening News, Feb. 15.)
The latest telegrams contained in the Brisbane papers inform us that the loss of sheep on the Wolfang station is reported to have been from six to eight thousand. All the dams and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fearful Clermont Flood. Sad Loss of Life
Recently we published a brief description of the fearful flood at Clermont, Peak Downs, Cleveland. We find now in the papers a much more full account, sent by the Clermont[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Floods. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury)
SIR—I beg leave, through your columns, to suggest that if some philanthropic gentlemen possessing stores were now to offer storage—for grain and other farm produce—at a moderate…
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There is now, unfortunately, a flood of great magnitude in the Hunter, and the sad scenes which are part of the history of past years are being repeated, if not to so great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton. High [?] in the Hunter, and Parfial Flood, at [?]Leton
The continued rainy weather which had prevailed here for about ten days prior to Thursday last did not excite any serious apprehensions of an approaching flood in the minds of most persons here, because the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, March 15, 1870 Flood Matters
A FEW years ago, at the time when the Government embankment at the great flood-breach in High-street collapsed, the failure of the work was cited by some as illustrating the principle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Hunter
Resuming our account of the progreas of the flood at the point where it ceased in our last issue, we have to record a temporary subsidence of the waters in the river, and a subsequent rise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Floods and Industrial Schools. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—It appears from your issue of this morning that the Benevolent Society are prepared to offer assistance to the sufferers by the flood in the shape of bread and soup, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood at Maryborough. Brisbane
[Afternoon Telegram.]—There is now the greatest flood at Maryborough ever known The water is four feet above the highest water mark of 1864. A number of farmers and others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Hunter. The, Back-water-great Destruction of Crops—extent of Damage
Since our last notice the water of the river has been falling, though slowly, and some of the land that had been submerged is free from inundation. At five o'clock on Monday evening, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, Marcj 19, 1870 Flood Matters Again
As the report of the Hunter River Floods Commission has not yet been sent in, it is to be presumed that the Commissioners will, before sending it in, avail themselves of any new facts…
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Before the waters of the flood the progress of which we have recorded in previous issues, had subsided in the river, and while the "backwater" was yet [?]ing, to destroy many lowlying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, March 22, 1870. Flood Matters
THERE ia much truth in the view pat forth by the Herala the other day, that the unprotected state of the low lands on the Hunter is due to the irregularity and uncertainty of the flood…
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