Violent Storm at Narandera
On Wednesday evening last (says the Narandera Argus) between five and six o'clock a very severe gale of wind, which caused the sand to rise in volumes, passed…
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Floods & storms, 1882
15 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Floods in Sydney
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Great Flood in the Mississippi Valley. (Philadelphia paper, Feb. 2[?].)
A special despatch from St. Louis say[?]: "The rise in the Mississippi River is said by the oldest steamboat men to be unprecedented. No such amount of water was ever…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Great Mississippi Flood. Water in the Fields Six Feet Deep
New Orleans, March 24.—The Times-Democrat steamer Tensas arrived at Delhi, La., yesterday. On the way up tho steamer picked up several families who were in search…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Causes and Effects of Great Floods
A great flood in the Mississippi has been causing immense damage. In the midst of it apprehensions for the probable fate of New Orleans, one of the greatest river ports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Pennsylvania Cyclone. Three Persons Killed Outright and Six Fatally Injured
Everson, Pa., April 20.—A cyclone swept over the northern portion of Fayette County last evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock, uprooting orchards, and killing three persons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gathering of a Storm
"For when great [?] are gathering [?] The breast of ocean have Distressfully, Dry shrieks are meant in the mountains the shore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oberon in a Storm—The Captain Washed Overboard. (From the Herald.)
One of the original China clipper ships, the Oberon, arrived at this port on Saturday night, 24th, from London, and the voyage out appears to have been attended with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Big Flood of 1882, SouthWestern Queensland. (from a Correspondent of Melbourne Australasion.)
Having occasion to leave Melbourne about the end of January last for a journey into Queensland, and being a traveller in the first coach out west after the big flood of 1882, an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Sworn to No Master, of No Sect Am I." The Singleton Argus. Vol. [?].-No. [?] Saturday, August 10th, 1882. The Coming Storm
THE Stagnation in [?] affairs Which has been the order of things in this colony for many months post, is happily nearly at no end. Our Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Storms in Victoria. (By telegraph to Herald.) Melbourne
From all parts of the country reports have been received of plentiful rains. In some of the drier districts the downpour was the heaviest experienced in the course of three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Floods and Hailstorms in Victoria. (Australasia[?] Oct. 2[?].) Fatal Floods at Birregurra. Birregurra, Monday, Oct. 23
All the low-lying land in this district is flooded, and a very melancholy occurrence is reported to have taken place on Mr. J. F. Strachan's run, Mr. Water Beasley, overseer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Floods in Europe
Terrible weather is reported from some parts of the Continent, especially the Tyrol and Switzerland. In the former wide districts have been inundated by disastrous floods, and the damage done has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sad Mining Catastrophe in Victoria. a Mine Flooded—many Lives Supposed to Be Lost. [By Telegraph From Greville's Co.] Sydney, Wednesday afternoon
A terrible catastrophe has occurred in a mine. At the Australasian company's mine, two miles from Creswick, at half-past five on Tuesday morning the men engaged in one of the drives, unexpectedly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mail Extracts. Terrible Storm and Flood[?]
The United Kingdom has recently be[?] visited with a terrible storm of wind an[?] rain, which has caused considerable damage and loss of life in many parts. The floods…
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