A Night in a Storm
GEORGE F. BUXTON gives in “Adventures in the Rocky Mountains,” a thrilling description of a night spent on the open prairie in a blizzard. The advent of the storm was sudden and terrible. Black,…
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Floods & storms, 1900
26 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Flood Damages
It is roughly estimated that the damage done to the Parkes streets during the flood will cost the Council at least an expenditure of £250. We…
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After a protracted, and consequently distressing, spell of dry weather, most opportune rain set in on Friday evening, continuing with but a few…
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But for the prompt action of Mr John Westcott, Saturday's flood in Parkes might have been marked with a shocking tragedy. Just when the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm at Tamworth
A STORM of unprecedented severity swept over Cockburn Valley at Nemingha on Tuesday night, doing a great deal of damage. Five and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When Caught in a Storm
Lightning strikes high points. It is therefore important that we keep away from anything that rises above the ground-such as trees, walls, and fences…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Bride From the Flood
" Dearest Blanche, I am here at lost. I could not, however, leave my stepfather's sick cough until he had dropped off to sleep. He has been more than usually questions this night—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The 1900 Flood
Owing to the phenomenal rains and' fall of snow along the Lachlan, the greatest flood yet experienced in that river seems inevitabe. From Cowra, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy, Snow Storm. The Lachlan in Flood. the Highest Since 1870. Great Damage to Property
The snow-storm on Thursday was the heaviest ever experienced in Cowra, since the first settlement took place. Snow commenced to. fall about 4 o’clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Western Champion and Parkes and Forbes Kepresentative Friday, July 13, 1900. Forbes in Flood
The uncertainty of the Australian climate is nowhere better illustrated than in these western areas, where the temperature may be anything, from…
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The probability of a record flood at Condobolin has been the matter uppermost in the public mind since the announcements in our special country…
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THE break up of the terrible drought in Northern Riverina has been signalised by a record flood, which, while doing much damage to stock and property, is,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Long Nervous Storm
If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little snip of wet; white cotton thread. How can so…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Floods
Once more we have, day after day, news coming from all parts of the country of serious damage being done by floods accompanied in some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lachlan in Flood
SCARCELY had the excitement subsided consequent on the phenomenal snowstorms of last week—a visitation that was more widespread than ever before known in the colony—when we hear of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrumbidgee Flood
THE Following incident is recorded in the Tumut Times:—A perilons incident is reported from Tumbalong. A large mob of Mr. Trigg's cattle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The 1900 Flood
THE flood waters have passed Condobolin and are now troubling the settlers in and around Euabalong and Lake Cudgellico…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Long Norvous Storm
If you ever watched a dentist draw a nerve out of a tooth, you will remember how much it looked like a little suip of wet, white cotton thread. How can so…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Re Flood Embankment. (To the Editor of the Cowra Guardian)
SIR,—Kindly allow me spaces in your valuable journal RE the above matter. As the cost to any private enterprise would be too great to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm
As a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…
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