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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1873

18 stories in Illawarra's papers

Drowned in a Flood

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1873 · page 4

THE Herald's Mudgee correspondent records loss of life from the flooding of Cunninghamo Creek, on Friday, 12th instant :—At the time the torrent came…

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The Cyclone at Maitland

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1873 · page 3

THE Mailland Mercury of Saturday says:— The towns of West and East Maitland and Morpeth, as we reported, came in for a heavy dose of injury, but we learn since…

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Destructive Storm at Yass

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1873 · page 4

THE Southern Argus States that one of the most destructive storms of rain and hail that has been witnessed in Yass for years took place on Sunday last. Before…

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Storm at Ballarat

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1873 · page 2

BETWEEN I and 3 o'clock on Sunday, a thunderstorm more terrific than has been witnessed for a very long time, passed over the town. While it lasted, the rain came down heavier…

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A Menagerie in a Storm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1873 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the Inter Ocean, writing from Iowa, describe a terrible seene caused by a menageric being attacked by a heavy thunderstorm in the…

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Incidents of the Recent Flood at Inverell

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1873 · page 4

THE Inverell Courier of January 1 gives the following additional particulars respecting the great flood that occurred at that township on the 21st ultimo. It…

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Disastrous Storms

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1873 · page 4

THE papers to hand by the mail are filled with particulars of the disastrous results of a great storm which raged throughout England on Dec. 8th. Numbers of lives…

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The Story of the Deluge in Ninevite Clay

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 February 1873 · page 4

Groat interest was excited beyond religious circles by the announcement that an account of the great Deluge had been discovered in cuneiform characters on Ninevite tables in the British…

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Effects of the Flood in Sydney

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 February 1873 · page 3

On Monday night, about midnight, the rain [?] somewhat abated in the earlier part of the [?]g, it again came down in torrents heavier [?] before, and so continued throughout the…

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The Late Floods. LIVERPOOL. Wednesday night

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1873 · page 3

We have had the highest flood here that, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has ever been known in the district. On Monday night it was raining heavily, and on Tuesday morning the…

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Floods at Comden

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 March 1873 · page 4

The district has again been visited by a most destructive flood, the highest ever known, exceedingy by six feet that commonly called "The Great Flood of 1860." Las week we had…

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Floods at Shoalhaven

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 March 1873 · page 4

We have again to chronicle a flood in our district, with all its attendant devastation, but happily, up to the present time—notwithstanding the fact of many providential escapes—without…

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The Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1873 · page 4

THE Herald's Windsor Correspondent says:—The water has now so far subsided that the river is again within ten feet of its usual level. The appearance of the…

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Great Snow Storm in America

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1873 · page 4

THE New York Tribune of the 27th ultimo gives the following account of the great snow storm that took place on the previous day:—"One of the most severe…

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Chaidean History of the Deluge

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 April 1873 · page 4

A great discovery has been mads of much interest to students of history and of the Seriptures. A detailed account was submitted on the evening of Tuesday, December 3rd, to the…

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Unparalleled Storm in Dakotah and Nebraska

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1873 · page 4

THE intensity and horrors of the great storm which desolated Minnesota and other western stated in January lost, have been outdone by a snow hurricane which…

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Select Poetry. a Waif of the Flood

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 August 1873 · page 4

Upon the river bank we stood. And a mournful group were we. For the river god was in angry mood, As river gods will be…

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Chaldean Account of the Flood

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 November 1873 · page 4

During excavations on the site of the old palace of Nineveh, some, fifteen years ago the debris of the royal library was unearthed, and a number of inscribed tablets discovered in almost…

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