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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1904

19 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

Floods

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

Heavy rains have flooded a large area in South Australia…

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The Belubula in Flood

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

The receipt of a telegram on Wednesday evening last from Lyndhurst by Mr. T. Finn, J.P., to the effect that very heavy rains had fallen there and that the…

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Violent Storm

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

A teriffic storm broke over Goulburn. Over three inches of rain fell in an hour…

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Severe Storm

Western Champion · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 11

On Thursday evening last, shortly after five o'clock (just as we were going to press), a severe thunderstorm broke over Parkes. The peals of…

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A Storm in a Tea Cup. (To the Editor Peak Hill Express.)

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 4

I can warmly sympathize with poor Mr. Potts, and propose a remedy. After he has been working hard for 14 or 15 hours he wants a quiet night's…

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All Round. Electricity and Storms

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

IT is agreeable to be able to dissipate the idea which persons unacquainted with the ways of thunderstorms and of earthly…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesda. Heavy Rains in the Country. Floods in Places

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

Heavy rains have fallen in the northern district. The Hunter River is flooded, and at the Belmore Bridge, West Maitland, rose 20ft in 9 hours…

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Floods on the

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 4

The Hunter River at West Maitland is rising slowly. Wallace Creek is a banker, and stock has been removed…

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Floods

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 2

A man with his wife and child were two days and nights flooded on the western plains, and were forced to climb a free…

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Violent Thunderstorms

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

A particularly violent thunderstorm visited Mudgce yesterday. Some of the thunderclaps were terrific. Several persons fainted from shock…

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Any Port in a Storm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1904 · page 6

MISS Flora Ford was on her way from Boston to her home In Philadelphia. Some people whom she knew had come with her as far ns New York and had…

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The Cyclone That Failed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

The Government Meteorologist states that the cyclonic disturbance predicted for to-day has passed off. [The Meteorologist on Thursday…

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Flood at Camden

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

The Nepean river overflowed its banks yesterday. The low-lying lands in the Camden district are submerged and all road traffic is suspended…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. The Recent Storm. Evidence of a Wreck. Phenomenal Rainfall

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 13 July 1904 · page 3

A large life boat and many life-belts marked Huddart Parker and Co. have been washed ashore at Cronulla Beach, near Sutherland, together with other…

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Short Story. a Storm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 2

INTO and dark wet night be disappeared, and never once turned his head to give a last look at the white, angry, little face pressed against the window pane…

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A Severe Storm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 2

A storm of unpr[?]cedented violence broke over the own shortly after two o’clock on Wednesday morning ; the thunder was very heavy and the vivid…

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Barmedman Briefs. [Advocate's Special.] Barmedman, Thursday. Severe Thunderstorm

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 22 October 1904 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon one of the most severe thunderstorms ever experienced here broke across the town The peals of thunder were…

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Short Story. When the Creek is in Flood. I.

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 5

At the door of a lonely hut, built on a little eminence known as the Bald Rock, a man stood and looked down on a scene of desolation. It was the close…

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Severe Storms

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 30 November 1904 · page 2

During a thunderstorm at Blockbeath, considerable dunage was done by lightuing. In places the ground was [?] ploughea up. One man…

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