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11 stories in Illawarra's papers
One of the most extensive and disastrous floods ever experienced in the colony, has visited the Hunter River District. An immense deal of property has been destroyed and several lives lost. In order to give our renders an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flood Relief Committee at Maitland have issued the following statement of the true effects of the late disastrous flood. The statement is intended to arouse sympathy towards the sufferers, whoso losses have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The rain which set in on Monday morning continued to full throughout the day, night, and yesterday up to 5 o'clock in the evening, when there was a lull both in the wind and rain. The storm has been a very violent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly gales remembered for some years past, accompanied with heavy and incessant rains. Casualities along the coast were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the Empire of Saturday gives the particulars of a most fearful flood in the Windsor district. The Hawkesbury rose thirty feet in the course of twelve hours, and swept away hay and corn stacks, horses, cattle, Ibid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A correspondent of the Herald of Saturday last has the following:—Camden, July 30th, 1857. Again this district has been visited with a very heavy flood, much more severe than the one in June last. The rain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scarcely have we recovered from the effects of the first flood, already fully reported, when a second had visit us, threatening still more disastrious consequences. We had calculated the losses sustained, and were able to some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another correspondent of the same paper,writing from Wilberforce on Saturday afternoon, after detailing the rise of the flood during the three previous days, says:—Great cries throughout the night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 19th instant the Free Press has the following:—"The past two days' rains have again flooded the river, and the water has ranged 2 feet 6 inches higher than on the former occasion, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday week, the Wollondilly rose rapidly to a considerable height. The waters completely flooded several houses between the river and the town, and compelled the occupants to fly. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The papers which have come to hand since our last contain further particulars of the recent disastrous floods all over the country, from which we glean the following…
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