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Floods & storms, 1894

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Serious Flood’s Is the Punjaub. London, May 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 June 1894 · page 21

A serious flood had occurred at Kulu in the Punjaub, causing disastrous landslip[?]. Two hundred persons have lost their lives. [?]…

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The Floods in British Columbia. Appalling Devastation. a Hundred Lives Lost. London, June 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 21

Further details have been received respecting the disastrous floods on the Fraser River, British Columbia, by which a great number of houses have been swept away and enormous damage…

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Great Floods in Hungary. London, Jane 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 June 1894 · page 20

Floods on an almost unprecedented scale have occurred in Hungary, causing widespread loss and destruction. Thousands of horses and sheep have been destroyed, and numbers of the…

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General European Telegrams. Cyclone in Bavaria. London, July 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 July 1894 · page 26

A disastrous cyclone has occurred in Upper Bavaria. The crops have been destroyed, and immense damage has been done to houses and other buildings…

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Disaster at the Great Southern Mine the Mine Flooded. Water 200 Feet Up the Shaft Narrow Escape of the Men

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 July 1894 · page 6

ON Saturday intelligence was brought into Rutherglen that a sudden inflow of water bad flooded the drives in the Great Southern mine, and enquiry…

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The Flood

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 August 1894 · page 2

THERE is every reason to believe that there will be a considerable flood here during the next few days. On Monday the river was 17ft 6in, and during…

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A Severe Gale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 August 1894 · page 29

There was a “ southerly buster” some little time ago at New Plymouth, New Zealand. Some extraordinary things were alleged by a local papers to have occurred. Unroofed…

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Floods

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 August 1894 · page 29

The Jerilderie Herald says:—“The Billabong Creek has again risen, and is now higher than it has been at any time before this year. From reports to the east further up the creek,…

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The Flood

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 2

THE flood in the river reached its highest point on Wednesday, and has now began to fall very slowly, as the water it still high between here and Narandera. At…

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The Flood. [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 2

As was anticipated on Friday last the [?] was then coming down the river, is a [?] one. On Friday morning last the [?] 21[?] Sin at the Deniliquin bridge and [?]…

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Remarkable Storm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 August 1894 · page 28

Writing to the managing owner of the vessel, Captain E. M. Lindfors, an old shipmaster sailing out of Sydney, has forwarded the following particulars of a remarkable electric…

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Cablegrams. China and Japan.the Chinese Admiral Degraded. the Country Abound Pekin Flooded. London, September 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 27

The Chinese Government has degraded Admiral Ting for having shown cowardice and incapacity in the naval operations against J[?]pan, and ho has been deprived of the insignia of the peacock…

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Floods at Echuca. Echuca

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 27

To-day the Campaspe commenced to rise rapidly, and this afternoon the river came up so quickly that considerable excitement was caused. At 6 o'clock this evening the water had reached…

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Another Flood Coming. a Big Risk at Albury

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 September 1894 · page 3

Reports from Albury during the early part of the week indicate that there has been another serious rise in the river at that place. On Friday last week, the Murray at Albury was 11ft 2in. above summer…

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Floods in the Country. Serious Damage. Echuca

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 September 1894 · page 3

To-day the Campaspe commenced to rise rapidly, and this afternoon the river came up so quickly that considerable excitement was caused. At six o’clock this evening the water had reached to the…

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Railway Accident in America. a Train Overturned by a Cyclone. London, September 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1894 · page 18

An extraordinary railway accident has occurred in the State of Missonri. A train was struck by a cyclone and overturned, two persons being killed and…

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The Flood. Wed[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 2

The flood in the Murray reached its [?] at Tocumwal, on Saturday morning [?] 8¼in above summer level, or within an [?] big flood in 1889. On Monday it had [?]…

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Cyclone in the United States. Terrible Devastation. Nine Towns and Villages Destroyed. London, September 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 September 1894 · page 18

A cyclone of terrible violence has visited the slates of Iowa and Minnesota. It devastated a tact of country 200 yards in width for a distance of 200 miles…

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Great Storm at Newfound- Land. London, October 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 18

Newfoundland has been visited by a storm of terrible violence. Sixteen fishing boats have been foundered at sea and 200 lives have been lost…

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Disastrous Floods in France. Great Destruction of Property. 100,000 Men Thrown Out of Work. London, November 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 November 1894 · page 18

Disastrous floods, caused by the overflowing of the rivers, have occurred in the department of Nord, in France. An immense amount of property has…

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