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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1892

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Floods in America

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 1 June 1892 · page 1

Distressing accounts continue to be received from the States lying within the watersheds of the Mississpi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers and their…

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A Story of a Flood

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 July 1892 · page 7

A pathetic story is associated with the little village of Süss, in the Lower Engadine, a wild bleak valley of Switzerland. One day a flood, caused by the molting of many glaciers, came roaring down the valley. The…

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Our Flood Cutting. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 July 1892 · page 5

SIR,--I noticed by a report in your paper a little while ago that the Darkwater Swamp Drainage Union held a meeting and passed resolntious that they were determined to…

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Storm at Yass. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 17 August 1892 · page 5

A severe storm passed over Yass on Sunday. Several houses Were unroofed, and a boy was killed…

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Heavy Thunderstorm. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 September 1892 · page 4

A heavy thunderstorm, with lightning, is now bursting over the city, and it is raining…

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Alarming Thunderstorm at Tinonee

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 September 1892 · page 4

A terrific thunderstorm was experienced at Tinonee, last week, which put the people in a state of alarm. The lightning struck the telegraph line…

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The Recent Heavy Weather. Severe Storms

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 5 October 1892 · page 3

ON the night of Friday, the 23rd, a very severe storm visited Sydney and did considerable damage. Since then many places on the coast have had the like experience,…

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Floods in England. London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1892 · page 5

Serious floods in Yorkshire and North Wales are causing ruin to the crops…

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Floods in Sardinia. London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 26 October 1892 · page 5

Disastrous floods have occurred in the Island of Sardinia. The Town Hall and 300 houses have been distroyed, and upwards of 100 people…

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The Effects of the Flood

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 4

We are happy to say that the damage suffered by the crops is much less than was at first reported. Those paddocks upon which the water has…

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Terrific Thunderstorm at Broken Hill

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 3

A violent storm passed over Broken Hill on Thursday morning. The thunder was terrific and the lightning very vivid. During the progress…

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Cyclone in Queensland. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 December 1892 · page 5

A cyclone has demolished the Catholic Chureh at Drayton, Queensland…

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