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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1877

8 stories in Murray's papers

The Cyclone in India. 231,000 People Destroyed. Melbourne Herald, telegram. Adelaide, January 5

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 2

Great anxiety was manifested in Adelaide on the arrival of the mail to ascertain whether the telegrams received about the terrible Cyclone to India were ture to the full extent as some hones were entertained that they…

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The Cyclone and Storm-wave in Bengal

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 2

Regarding the disastrous cyclone and storm-wave in Bengal, we obtain the following particulars from a minute by Sir Richard Temple, Lieutenant-Governor of…

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Flood at Ballarat

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 4

A very heavy thunderstorm broke over Ballarat on Saturday evening. Just as the storm was beginning to clear off the fire bells sounded the alarm, and people rushed to see where the fire was,…

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Gales in New South Wales. Loss of a Steamer with All Hands. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 July 1877 · page 8

A heavy S.S.E. gale has been blowing all night, and torrents of rain have continued all day, with a heavy sea on the coast. The steam collier Yarra Yarra, returning to the…

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Sketcher. a Mississippi Flood

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 4 August 1877 · page 4

THE next few months showed me stranger things. On the same day that we held the conversation above narrated, we met a great rise coming down the river. The whole vast…

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Printing Before the Flood

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 15 August 1877 · page 4

A great deal has been said as to the inventor of the art of printing, the period when the invention itself first saw the light, and the locality where it was born. Two out of…

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Destructive Storms in England

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 September 1877 · page 1

During the past week the metropolis has been visited by successive storms of wind, rain, lightning, and thunder, In the provinces also the rainfall has been…

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Effects of the Late Storm at Moorwatha

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 22 December 1877 · page 7

It is with great regret I have this week to write you bad news from this generally favored locality; however, such is the case, and most deplorable is tho state of affairs hew at present,…

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