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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1886

5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

The Predicted Storm

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 February 1886 · page 2

One of the most violent storms which has ever visited the Australian coast beat upon Victoria on Saturday. The barometer fell nearly an inch, the wind grew into a…

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Miscellaneous. Wiggins' Predictions. Peculiar Conditions of the Planetary Bodies -- a Tremendous Storm Foretold

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 February 1886 · page 2

IN a letter to a Detroit paper, E. Stone Wiggins says: -- In a recent issue of your jour[?] you say I have predicted that next winter wil be unusually mild. This is news to me. Will…

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Traveller. Chased by a Cyclone

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

WITHIN a few rods of the opening of the gulch I heard a roar, as of oncoming wind. Nan cried out again to her horse, the animal lurched forward yet faster, and in a moment…

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A New Mexican Sand-storm

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 2

The air was still as death, and there was not a puff of wind nor a rag of cloud in the whole horizon. I observed, however, that the sky had undergone a curious…

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A Day of Storm

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 December 1886 · page 2

Twas a day of storm, for the giant Atlantic, rolling in pride, Drawn by the full moon, driven by the fierce wind, tide upon tide,…

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