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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1891

10 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Manaro Teamsters and the Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 7 July 1891 · page 2

REFERING to the floods the Candelo Union says:— Owing to Candelo Traffic Bridge being in the repairer's hands, a large…

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Late Cablegrams. Floods in America

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1891 · page 5

From New York it is reported that disastrous floods have occurred in the territory occupied by the Cherokee Indians, west of the States of…

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The Floods

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 5

ON Sunday morning there was the largest flood in Cooma that has been known by any of the present residents. Large ominous clouds appeared in the…

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Terrible Floods in Spain

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1891 · page 7

Terrible floods have been experienced in the province of Toledo, Spain, where whole towns have been destroyed. Thousands of the inhabitants have…

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The Floods in Spain

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1891 · page 8

LONDON, Saturday. — The floods in Spain still continue. The rivers Togas and Gaudalquiver, the two main arteries of the kingdom, have both…

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Terrific Cyclone at Geelong

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A terrific gale raged through Geelongon Friday, night. At 9 o'clock the cyclone swept across the Barwon River from the…

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In a Thunderstorm

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1891 · page 7

A PERSON apprehensive of danger from lightning, happening during the time to be in a house not secured by conductors, would [?] (writes a…

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A Terrific Cyclone at Yass

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1891 · page 6

[?] atleast with in the memory ora white man, has any storm so terrific and destructive in its course ever passed over the district as…

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The Late Cyclone. at Yass

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 7

FURTHRR particulars are to hand of the damage done by the cyclone on Wednesday week. A huge tree at the side of the late residence of Mr. H. M…

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The Jubilee in a Gale

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1891 · page 9

ONE of those perils of the sen that every now and then falls to the of the best of ships, the steamer Jubilee, of Sydney, was exposed to on last…

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