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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1876

19 stories in Illawarra's papers

Storms

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 3 February 1876 · page 4

The violence the gales, which succeed on another almost without interruption, the immense amount of havoe wrought by the tide of last Sunday morning on the…

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The Oneida in a Cyclone

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1876 · page 4

THE Oneida, which has arrived in Hobson's Bay from London, is the same vessel which voyaged to Melbourne and Sydney as a screw steamer some years ago. Lately,…

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A Cyclone at Mauritius

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1876 · page 3

THE brig Emily arrived at Melbourne on the 12th instant from Algoa Bay, via the Mauritius, and Captain M. Eachern gives the Age the following account of how he…

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Great Floods in Hungary and Germany

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1876 · page 4
Also in Illawarra Mercury

Alarming news reaches us of the floods at Pesth. The Danube, which is as broad there as the Mississippi, has risen twenty. four feet above its normal height. Buda is…

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Disastrous Floods at Pesth

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1876 · page 4

Alarming news comes from Pesth. The Danube, which is as broad there as the Mississippi, has risen twenty-four feet above its normal height. Buda is…

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The Storm in Illinois

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 4

Chicago, March 28.—The greatest snow-fell of the season overtook this region last night and to-day, and now the snow probably has eighteen inches deep on a level…

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Dykes Swept Away by the Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1876 · page 4

London March 25,—The Daily Telegraph's Paris special reports that the dykes protecting Herzozenbusch in Holland have been swept away by the floods, Railway…

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Snowstorm and Gale in England

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1876 · page 4

THE weather on the 12th March was very tempestuous all over England. In London about 1 p.m., a snowstorm of unusual severity commenced and lasted about two…

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Alarming Floods

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1876 · page 4

Half the rivers of Europe are overflowing their banks, and the inundations are assuming more alarming proportions. In this city, the rapid rising of the seine is causing…

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Severe Snowstorm and Tempestuous Gales

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1876 · page 4

Towards the end of the month of March, the weather was very tempestuous all over England. In London on March 12 at, mid-day, a snow storm of unusual severity…

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The Deluge at Grafton

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1876 · page 2

From the 'Clarence and Richmond Examiner' of the 22nd July we take the following:— The rainfall recorded as having fallen at Grafton from Saturday at 9 a.m. to Sunday at 9 a.m. was…

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The Flood on the Clarence River. Grafton

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1876 · page 2

ON the 15th instant there was a heavy south-east gale, with rain. Early on Sunday morning the river rose rapidly. A large quantity of flour, wheat, and other…

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The Flood on the Clarence River

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1876 · page 4

On the 15th instant there was a heavy south-east gale, with rain. Early on Sunday morning the river rose rapidly. A large quantity of flour, wheat, and other…

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The late Gale at Sydney

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 September 1876 · page 2

The gale which set in on Sunday night, and which continued with unabated fury during the whole of Monday, has proved very destructive to property. It camp up so unexpectedly, and so…

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The Late Gale.—great Destruction of Property

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1876 · page 4

As was anticipated, the gale which set in on Sunday night, and which continued with unabated fury during the whole of yesterday, has proved very destructive to…

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Fatal Storm in Queensland

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 10 November 1876 · page 4

WRITING from Emu Creek, a correspondent of the Toowoomba Chronicle says:—The crops her have suffered very much from the unusually heavy hail storms of the 23rd…

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Great Storm in the Atlantic

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1876 · page 4

A telegram from Philadelphia in the Times, dated September 20, speaks of an equinoctial storm of great severity which occurred of the 17th September along the…

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Frightful Thunderstorm at Dalby

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1876 · page 4

FROM the Herald of the 11th instant we take the following amount of a frightful thunderstorm which passed over Dalby:—The general expectation that the intense…

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