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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1898

11 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Great Rains and Floods in Queensland SYDNEY, This Day

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 3

Great rains having fallen in Queensland, heavy floods have occurred at Rockhampton, Mary-borough, Gympie and other districts…

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Floods in Queensland

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 20 January 1898 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—When day dawned this morning, South Brisbane presented a pitiful scene. The river had risen during the night [?] and the…

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Floods at Bungendore. Two Men Drowned. Railway Washaways

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 2

BUNGENDORE, Wednesday. — The most disastrous flood over known here occurred last light. It had been raining from Saturday until Monday 9a.m…

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The Recent Gales. the Amy and Malcolm Disasters

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 5

THE special reporter of the Daily Telegraph says :—There are few prettier spots for going ashore on that lovely. Illawarra coast than M'Auley's Beach, Thirroul, just…

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The Storm at Mt. Kosciusko

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 5

Mr. Bernard Ingleby, the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at the Mount K[?]isko Observatory, recently established by Mr. Clement…

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Floods at Bungendore

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 6

A TELEGRAM from Bungendore dated Wednesday pays :—The most disastrous flood ever known here occurred last night. It had been raining from Saturday until…

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Floods under the Mountain

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 6

THE rain which started in Bega on Wednesday, 9th, inst, continued until a little after midnight on Monday, and in all 27.30 inches, or more than three-puartere…

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A Colliery Flooded. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 2

A colliery at Murkirk has been flooded and many miners entombed. Sixteen persons were rescued after twenty-four hour's…

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Terrific Gales. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 3

Terrific gales continue in the English Channul. Forty-five fishermen have been drowned…

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Heavy Rain in Perth

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 May 1898 · page 2

Heavy rain fell on Saturday in Perth (W.A.), an inch being recorded in twenty five minutes, the low lying streets were flooded…

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[?] Account [?] Deluge [?] Observes

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 6

[?] has been [?]…

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