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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms
101 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 6
The storm which broke over Maitland yesterday caused considerable damage to fruit trees and other crops, and to buildings, while there wore some narrow escapes from serious accidents through the falling of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great floods have occurred in the Went of England. In the city of Bath a hundred flooded-out citizens are sheltered in schools, and others are fed in their houses by means of boats. At Coventry tho damages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further particulars of last night's storm show that the damage was much greater than at first was supposed. The estimated loss by business firms in Kingstreet alone amounts fully to ten thousand pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further reports of last night's storm show that it was the most severe on record. It did enormous damage to stock and buildings throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE sweltering heat of the last few days was abruptly terminated at Broken Hill on Friday evening by a fearful dustatorm, which brought a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Severe snow storm occurrrd at Liverpool. The weight of the snow caused the overhead electric tramway wires to fall. Two persona were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Few ideas are more firmly rooted in the popular mind than the notion that the equinoxes are times when severe gales are to be expected. Last Friday the sun…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further particulars to hand of the wind and dust storm last evening show that considerable damage was done. The fruit gardens in particular suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, reports that the Orange River is still in flood. He states that the Boers are trekking cost and north. The British columns form a wide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Public Works Committee to-day resumed its investigation into the Hunter River Flood Prevention proposal. Mr. Darley, further examined, said he still adhered to the opinion was necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods occurring in the valley of the Hunter about Maitland and Morpeth, and thence to the sea, are naturally regarded an accumulations of water which it in desirable to remove…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE s.s. Duke of Westminister which has just arrived here, reports having encountered violent storms in the Bay of Biscay, on her way to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TERRIBLE storm is raging in the English Channel. No less than 300 vessels are storm bound at the mouth of the Thames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Few people pass through the without some gleam of happiness. After my ill-omened wedding day I had two months—I must not say of happiness, but of trembling joy, I was wrapped in my dream of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOPES are now almost abandoncd as to the safety of the Federal steamer. More wreckage has been washed up in several places including some ship's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE are still no tidings of the s.s. Federal, and small hope entertained that she weathered the terribel Riilp. The Louisa Lamont is given up, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great floods have occurred in Canada causing much destruction to property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By a great flood at Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, three million dollars worth of damage has been done, and thousands of workers thrown idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was briefly announced by cable, message on March 27 that a tornado had swept over Alabama (U.S.) and killed 25 people and injured about 500 others…
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