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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
154 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 8
The Big River has overflowed its banks. The Mehi is also a banker, and rising rapidly. The town is surrounded and also divided by water, eaat and west ends being separated by a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Considerable fears were entertained this morning of another flood in Brisbane, the river having risen 18in. Heavy rains wore reported up the river at Fassifern, Goodna, Laidley, and other places. At…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CYCLONIC storm of the most violent character last night swept over the northern portion of the state of Kentucky. In this progress lay the city of Louisville, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Desha, a county in the state of Atkansas is submerged under fifteen feet of flood water, and in cousequence several thousands of people have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I was rather amused on reading your issue of Thursday to learn that the honorable member for posterity had applied to the Government for a further grant of £5000 to repair flood damage in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The river rose 8½in. during the last 24 hours. At high water to-day the river was 12ft. 3½in below the higher parts[?] of the decking of the bridge. Its current is flowing at the rate of a fraction under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FEARS are being entertained for the safety of the Fitzroy Bridge. The Rockhampton Municipal Council have taken steps to regulate the traffic over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MEETING of residents of Darlington was held on Tuesday evening, at Mr A. Wilson's, for the purpose of adopting concerted action to bring under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The river is still rising. The lower portions of the town are quite submerged. The flood-waters extend up East-street as far as the Rockhampton Hotel. The river[?]broke…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Apprehensive as the people felt about the flood waters at Tenterfield, it may be imagined how much more intensified was the feeling of terror on the flats all along the river below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TROPHRTSTOWN, a settlement on Rock River in Whiteside County, Illinois, has been devastated by a cyclone of the same type as that which wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE flood water from New England and Queensland commenced to rise here at noon on Saturday with great rapidity, the rivers at the time being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad news of the losses occasioned by the floods in the Balonne River has been received privately. A telegram from Mr. Allen Gillespie, at Whynebar, 60 miles below St. George, states that the Boomah…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE flood at Walgett, which has been very severe, was on Thursday gradpally subsiding but more water was reported as coming down the Namoi and Barwon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Saddler arrived this morning from Wilcannia. She reports having removed several families from flood waters, including the inmates of the Kallara Bend Hotel, Masson's and Waldon's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A telegram was received from Bourke today, staling that there is every hope of the embankment Keeping back the water, though everything is safe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The situation in Bourke to-night is still critical. It can be summed up in one sentence. So long as the dams hold, the town is safe. The river is still rising, the increase in the volume of water being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advices just received at Queenstown from Yokohama, dated January 30, contain details of a fearful cyclone which swept along the Japanese coast from January 24 to January 26, causing the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CONSIDERABLE excitement prevails here on account of the alarmingly high state of the river, which has left its banks in all directions, and but for the dams…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE situation here, though still verging on the dangerous is yet slightly more reassuring. The number of workers on the embankment has been…
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