Gale and Disasters at Sea
According to information received at Plymouth on Nov. 21 by the troopship Tyne, H.M. gunboat Sandfly had a narrow escape of foundering in the gale which resulted in the loss of H.M.S. Serpent…
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Floods & storms, 1891
76 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 4
A Coal Pit Flooded. (Newcaste Herald.)
About 6 o'clock on Thursday morning the residents of Tighe's Hill were alarmed by hearing a rumour that a serious accident had happened at the Pride of Ferndale Pit, and that one of the…
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NEWS from Perth (W.A.) dated Monday last state that a destructive eyelone is reported from Lagrange Bay. It commenced on the evening of the 27th…
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It is still raining heavily at Bourke. One and a-half inch fell last night. It is feared that there will be another flood…
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The river Murrumbidgee is in flood at Wagga, and is 29 feet above summer level, and half-a-mile wide, covering a great space of ground on the northern…
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The river is still rising very fast here. A gentleman just returned from Gumbalie, on the "Warrego, reports the country all under water, making it compulsory to travel three…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Thunderstorms and rain, more or less heavy, are still anticipated in the interior, also effecting the eastern parts here…
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Floods have taken place in Ma[?] which resulted in one hundred people being drowned. The damage done was enormous…
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A STORM of almost unsurp[?]sed violence passed over Broke on Monday evening last, doing considerable damage. At Murinbin, the residence of Mr R. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Monday's Thunderstorm in Sydney. (S. M. Herald of Tuesday.)
Never before, so far as it can be remembered here, has such a remarkable explosion taken place as that which occurred during yesterday's thunderstorm. Loud claps of thunder have, of course,…
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On, Monday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, the town was visited with a terrific windstorm, accompanied with a display of heaven's artillery and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Floods at Dagworth. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—With your kind permission I wish to refute a statement made by Mr. Stephens at the recent meeting of the District Council. He proclaims himself an authority on the effects of floods at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cablegrams. London, Monday. Disastrous Flood
A great fioud has occorred in Arizona, the township Zuma being submerged. Fourteen hundred inhabitants were driven from their homes and one…
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A TELEGRAM from Perth (W.A.) dated Monday last states that a dissetro[?] cyclone occurred at Wyndham last Saturday week. All the public…
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Word was received on Monday by the French mail steamer Yarra that the A.U.S.N. Company's s.s. Victoria had met with terrible weather hence to Noumea. The vessel left Grafton Wharf at 8…
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ISISFORD, Thursday.—The Barcoo is now in high flood, the river being over a mile wide and as high as last year's flood. The telegraph wires have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Great Snow Storm in England. Terrible Night in the Channel
The winter of 1890-91 will long be remembered as one of the most severe ever experienced. First there came the memorable seven weeks' frost, which meant in London, seven weeks' darkness, and a…
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The following wires have been received by the Under Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department:—"Winton, 14th April. Mailman services between Winton and Boulia, and Elderslie…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain at Grafton. Floods Feared. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
THERE was an exceptionally heavy downfall of rain at Grafton last night, when no less than 4½ inches of rain fell. The rivers are rising, and floods are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Storms in America. Great Destruction to Life and Property. London
TERRIFIC rainstorms have occurred in the districts of Ottawa and Peoria, in the state of Kansas, in the United States. The storms, which were of a…
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