Floodboat Capsized. Narrow Escape
This morning No. 2 floodboat met with an accident, which might easily have terminated disastrously for the boat's crew, which consisted of Messrs. William…
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Floods & storms, 1913
530 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 27
The Floods Return
After a long and welcome spell, the immunity which the Lower Hunter has enjoyed from floods broke up this week, and the break is a bad one. After about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods. The Williams Overflows. Flats Submerged
It is a long, long while since Dungog has experienced such a continuous spell of wet weather, as now prevails. It may be said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gloucester Flooded Gloucester
Up to 9 a.m. this morning 782 points have been registered for three days. All the Gloucester flats are submerged as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flooded! Camp Under Water. Troops and Horses Have Trying Time. Training Out of Question. Old Puen Buen
Twelve days ago, mounted troops, to the number of six hundred odd, entered one hundred or more bell-shaped tents for the purpose or undergoing their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Flood Rains. Great Damage to Property. Flood in Lower Hunter. Railway Communication Cut[?] Railway Line Washed Away
The ruin which sot in. early on Tuesday and continued throughout, Wednesday, and through that night, was of an extraordinary character…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain at Scone. Creeks and Cullies Full. Scone, Wednesday morning
Once more we have received a splendid downpour of rain and rivers creeks, and gullies are full of water. The main street— Kelly-street—was covered with water for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Gale at Sea. Second Officer Drowned
The captain of the St. Albans, after leaving Sydney on Wednesday, took the vessel two miles out to sea before shaping a northerly course. At 5 p.m. the sea began to rise, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Big Flood in the Hunter. River Breaks Over Banks. Denman Flooded. Singleton and Maitland Fare Badly. Singleton Railway Bridge Damaged. Trains Held Up at Mus Wellbrook. Railway Line Washed Away Telegraph Lines Down
That it is possible to have too much of a good thing has been amply demonstrated this week—destructive floods following a too copious fall of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fighting the Flood. Bolwarra Battlers
Very few in Maitland yesterday were engaged at their ordinary occupations. Large numbers were employed in moving people and furniture form flooded or threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Housing the Flooded Out
There are hundreds of flooded out families in the town, tho have been forced to seek refuge in the public hall and other places. At the Town Hall some 70 or 80 poor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bolwarra Farms Flooded Water Breaks Over Near Largs
The Bolwarra Embankments stood remarkably well until yesterday afternoon when the water began to came in at Suters' at the foot of Largs. FOr a length of about 150 yards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hunter Floods. River Falling. Back Water Rising. Bursting of Cummins' Dam the Flooded Area, Hundreds of Houses Flooded. Work of Water Brigade
The food waters of the Hunter commenced [?] fairly rapid rate about seven O'clock [?]evening, when measurements taken at the [?] Bridge showed that it had gone down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flooded Streets
This morning the flood waters had reached right up to High-street from the High-street railway station to a point beyond the back of the Bank of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood Boats
The flood boats this morning came up to the top of Devonshire and Victoria streets, the hatter street in front of the Dominican con[?]ent being made the stating and stopping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hunter in Flood District Under Water. Singleton, Aberdeen and Denman Flooded. Young Man Drowned at Morpeth. Farmers' Heavy Losses
"Mercury" Office [?] night. What was a fresh in the Hunter yesterday has developed into a flood to-day, and a very serious, one at that. The river which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Flood Refuge
Colonel Markwell called upon the Mayor of West Maitland to-day, and very kindly offered to place the spacious Military Hall in St. Andrew-street at the disposal of any of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Telegrams
The Mayor of West Maitland (Alderman W. McLauchlin) interviewed Mr. Richards, the Post and Telegraph Master at West Maitland, last evening, and urged that as the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dunmore and Woodville Flooded
Reports to hand are to the effect that the Paterson River has overflowed its banks at Woodville and Dunmore. Large areas of fertile lucerene and agricultural lands have been…
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