Flooding the Sahara
"WITH reference to the daring French project for flooding the desert of Sahara with what would he virtually a new sea, it may be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods & storms, 1885
6 stories in New England's papers
Ocean Storm, Yarmouth Roads
Spread o'er the sky, and trailing down The purple spaces of the sea, The utter darkness of the night, Unsearched by single star of light…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Cyclone in the Indian Ocean. Wreck of the S.S. Speke Hall—all Hands But One Lost
THE M.M. steamer Peiho brings intelligence of the wreck of the British steamer Speke Ball in a cyclone, about 180 miles this side of Aden. All hands were lost,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous floods in China
The steamer Taunadice, which arrived at Cooktown from Hongkong on the 28th ult., brought the following China news: —The long-continued heavy rains have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storm in the East
IT is now evident that the revolution in Eastern Roumelia has forestalled and neutralised a very clever scheme by which Russia and Austria were to have been aggrandised…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Indian Cyclone. Appalling Loss Op Life. 17 Villages Destroyed
THE accounts which are coining to hand of the recent cyclone on the Orissa coast show that the loss of life and property has been appalling. Mr. Commissioner Metcalfe early visited the…
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