Gales, Inundations, and Great Snowstorm
SELDOM has the commencement of a new year been more noted by a dismal record of wrecks on our coasts, and of founderings in the deep seas, than that of the present year…
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6 stories in New England's papers
Summary of European News. Shipwrecks and Fearful Loss of Life. Violent Gale in London
A [?] gale from the s[?] south-west burst [?] Londdon on Sunday morning and continued to [?] [?] [?] it the day in gusts more violent than [?] [?] [?] [?] even in the course of this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fearful Gale. One Hundred Lives Lost at Newcastle
ONE of the most fearful gales that Newcastle has ever experienced began to blow there on Wednesday night, the wind being accompanied by heavy driving rain. All through Wednesday night, and on Thursday, and…
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On Wednesday it began to rain, and with slight intermissions continued to fall steadily all day. Wednesday night it fell pretty heavily, but on Thursday morning a steady…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Violent Gale in the Metropolis and Loss of Life
ON Tuesday the metropolis and suburbs were visited by a violent gale of wind, accompanied at intervals by deluging showers of rain mingled occasionally with bail. At sunrise, and for upwards of an hour afterwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Fence Against Floods
Take two short, heavy posts, say three feet long, set into the ground and extending above it some ten or twelve inches. A pole six inches in diameter and of sufficient length to spen the stream, or if for a…
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