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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1879

5 stories in New England's papers

The Sketcher. Saved by a Cyclone

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 4

"CLAP the passengers ashore on the Solomons, say, or, New Ireland; anywhere between this and China, so as it's out of the regular track of ships. That's the chat, mates, since you're for…

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Disastrous Floods in Hungary

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 May 1879 · page 3

A GREAT calamity has befallen Hungary. Owing to the heavy rain, the snow about the sources of the Theiss and Maros, and along the course of the Theiss, was melted. The river…

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Late Dreadful Floods in Hungary

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 May 1879 · page 3

RECENT letters take nothing from the dreadful nature of the above calamity. The Daily News correspondent describes a visit made a few days previously to the village of Tape, with its two…

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Another Deluge

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1879 · page 3

A BELGIAN professor has published a work entitled "Periodicite des Grands Deluges Resultant du Mouvement Graduel de la Linge des Aspides de la Terre," in which he warns us that…

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Floods in Tam Worth and Inverell Districts. (From Saturday's Herald.) Tamworth

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1879 · page 6

The river commenced falling slowly after midnight. It rained heavily from that time, and is still raining. The river and creek are again rising this morning…

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