The Tremendous Floods in Germany
The Rhine on November 27 reached the highest point since 1845, causing considerable inundations and great damage. It is still rising. The Neckar, Main, Moselle, and…
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Floods & storms, 1883
21 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Heavy Thunderstorm
Yesterday afternoon, commencing about two o'clock, a thunderstorm from the southward reached Maitland, and gave us for over an hour the heaviest rain we can remember…
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A correspondent to the Clarence and Richmond Examiner thus describes a hail storm which occurred at tho above place:—While on the road within a mile from home, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Rainfall and Floods in the South
We take the following telegrams describing the excessive rainfall and in some places floods in the South from the Sydney papers of Tuesday:-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Steamship Sorata in a Gale. (From the Herald's correspondent.) Melbourne
The Orient liner Sorata, which arrived early this morning from Sydney, experienced extremely rough weather on the voyage round. After clearing Sydney Heads at five p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Thunderstorms in Queensland. (From the Toowoomba Chronicle, Jan.30.)
During the past few days the district has been visited with a series of thunderstorms unprecedented in their violence and injury to stock and produce. Since Wednesday last we…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wiggins's Storm Prophecies
The following, from the European Mail of Feb. 23, may we suppose be regarded as the present view of scientific men on the possibility of any correct "prophecies" of storms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Gale in Sydney. (Thursday's Daily Telegraph.)
The heaviest ga[?]e that has for some time visited the coa[?]t was experienced yesterday. It commenced about 9 a.m. from tha south-west, and subsequently v[?]ered to south, from which point it blew with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Gale. (New[?] Herald of Tuesday.) Gallant Rescure and Escape From S[?]arks at Sea
Captain Gadd, of the barque Athena from Wallaroo, who arrive[?] in Newcastle yesterday afternoon, with his ve[?]el partly dismantled, reports a very narrow e[?]cape during his…
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A POLICEMAN, the driver, and a reporter, stood on the front platform of a New York [?]trcet car recently, as the horses went splashing and slipping on…
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The great floods that have been occurring in Europe, at intervals for months past, have induced the republication by the French [?] tary public departments of instructions [?]…
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One of the strangest freaks of the flood is reported from the Whitewater River, a little above Lawerenceburg, Indiana, where Farmer Hunt lost forty acres of land and his neighbour, Fred Newhouse, had a barren…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Floods in South Australia. (By Telegraph to Herald.) Adelaide
It rained incessantly throughout the night, and almost without intermission to-day. At Clarendon 2¾ inches were registered for the 24 hours up to nine o'clock this morning…
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A [?]d impression of the sudden [?] of the Southern cyclone is conveyed by this brief [?] of B.F. Jones of B. F.Jones of B[?]rd, Miss., why [?] coming…
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"WALK in walk night in, you're welcome; When I how the wind whistles about Take a chair close to the fire, sir; It's a bad sort of night to be out…
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The threatenings of rain which we accorded on Wednesday were realised on Thursday evening. The day was cloudy, and at 6 o'clock a thunderstorm gathered and broke,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Thunderstorm at Taree. (Manning Times, Sept. 29.)
One of the heaviest thunderstorms, which have been experienced for years, passed over this township on Wednesday evening last. The lightning was vivid, and several loud…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Storm at Gympie. (From the Queenslander.)
A private letter received from Gympie by the Rev. J. Buckle, from which we are kindly permitted to quote, gives further details of the storm at Gympie last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Duke of Argyll on the Deluge
THE Duke of Argyll delivered a lecture at Glasgow on "Geology and the Deluge. "He said the common practice was to suppose that there had been a…
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THE Duke of Argyll delivered a lecture at Glasgow on "Geology and the Loinge." He said the common practice was to suppose that there had been a…
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