Floods in Italy
A series of letters in the Times paints a sorry picture of provincial Italy. In the Ravenna district everything is decaying—grass grows in the streets of historical cities, and society lives…
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Floods & storms, 1873
37 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Incidents of the Recent Flood at Inverell
The Inverell Courier of Jan. 1 gives the following additional particulars respecting the great flood that occurred at that township on the 21st ult. It appears that great anxiety was felt as to the safety…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Ashford, New England. (From a correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
The greatest flood that has ever been known by the residents of this locality occurred on Saturday, the 21st December. It commenced to rain a little after sundown on…
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There was a tremendous fall of rain in Preston and in the neighbourhood on the night of the 29th Oct., and it would seem that the downfall has been general throughout the northern and…
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The rapidly departing autumn bids fair to be remembered as the most calamitous season within the memory of the present generation. It has been an epoch of conflagrations, tempests, hurricanes, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(From the European Mail and Home News.) the Floods in Denmark
Detailed accounts of the tempest and flood of November on the Baltic state that the damage will have to be counted by millions. In one of the Hundreds of Lolland alone the losses are estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Story of the Deluge in Nlnevite Clay
Great interest was excited beyond religious circles by the announcement that an account of the great Deluge had been discovered in cuneiform characters on Ninevite tablets in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Violent Thunderstorm in Melbourne. (From the Argus, Feb. 20.)
A violent thunderstorm passed over Melbourne yesterday evening between 9 and 10 o'clock. The lightning was very vivid, and the ram poured in torrents for some minutes. The streets on the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Floods at Liverpool. (From Thursday's Evening News.) Liverpool, Wednesday night
We nave had the highest flood here that, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has ever been known in the district. On Monday night it was raining heavily, and on Tuesday morning the nver began rapidly to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. (From the Herald and the Evening News Telegrams.)
The reports we have received from the country districts show that the floods have been disastrous. A very large amount of private property has been destroyed, and public works also have been injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Windsor. (From the Herald's correspondent.)
The water attained its highest point during the night, and is now slowly receding. At 9 o'clock last night it was rising at the rate of two inches an hour; but could not have continued more than a few hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods. Damage by Flood to the Bulli Colliery. (From a correspondent of the Illawarrs Mercury, Feb. 28.)
Great damage has been at the Bulli colliery by the intense downfall of rain on Tuesday and Tuesday night. The following are the particulars to hand:— The weather was more or less showery for a day or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →United States. (From Californian papers of January 3) Severe Winter—heavy Snow Storms. New York, December 26th
A very heavy drifting snow-storm commenced early this morning, and still continues with great fury. Street-car travel is greatly obstructed. Dispatches from the South and East state that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Floods. the Floods at Shoalhaven. (From the Shoathaven News, March 1.)
Although so much rain had fallen, it was midnight on Tuesday before any palpable rise in the river took place, and then, notwithstanding tile spring tide, which was at half ebb, the water was running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood at Camden. (From correspondence in the Herald of March 4th.)
This district has again been visited by a most destructive flood, the highest ever known, exceeding by six feet that commonly called. " The Great Flood of 1860." Last week we had several thunderstorms,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood in the Hawkesbury. (From the Herald's Windsor Correspondent.)
The water has now so far subsided that the river is again within ten feet of its usual level. The appearance of the flooded country is most miserable. Where the water has run off the land there is scarce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cyclone in the New Hebrides, and Wreck of the Dayspring. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sir,—I send for publication the following account of the cyclone in the New Hebrides, and of the wreck of the Dayspring, missionary schooner. It has a scientific as well as a general interest. It is an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gale at Newcastle. (From the Chronicle, May 1.)
Shortly before noon on Tuesday, the southerly wind—indicated by the storm signals the day previous as blowing at Jervis Bay—reached here, and increased in fury—the dust in the streets being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Borough Council. the Wallis' Creek Floodgates
A special meeting of the Borough Council of West Maitland was held in the Chambers, Devonshire[?] street, on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the letter and claim of…
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A special meeting of the West Maitland Borough Council was held in the Chambers, Devonshire-street, on Wednesday evening, to consider certain matters in connection with the contract for the Wallis'…
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