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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1886

10 stories in New England's papers

Great Floods Predicted by Blacks

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1886 · page 3

ALL accounts from the north and north-east concur in representing the extensive preparations made by the aboriginals in anticipation of an unusually wet season, accompanied by heavy floods…

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Great Rain Storm on the Northern Line

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1886 · page 4

THE special reporter of the Newcastle Herald writing from Tamworth on 31st ultimo, says:-- The heaviest rain storm that has ever been experienced in the Northern district took place at Werris Creek…

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Biography of a Storm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1886 · page 5

THE most complete biography of a storm ever published has been given to the Royal Met era logical Society by Mr. Henry Harries. It is not only interesting in itself, hut useful as showing the…

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Damaging Floods Abroad

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1886 · page 5

THE Philadelphia correspondent of the Times telegraphing on 15th February, says: --" The newspapers today describe freshets, ice gorgets and overflows, caused by the…

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Disastrous Storms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1886 · page 2

THE spring of 1888 will long be remembered as one of the most tempestuous seasons that have occurred in this century. The storm…

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Remarkable Cyclone at Deal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1886 · page 7

THE town of Deal, which was about seven years ago visited by a disastrous cyclone. was again visited by a similar phenomenon on June 14…

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The Influence of Storms on Subterranean Telegraph Lines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1886 · page 7

ELECTRIC discharges have been frequently observed at telegraph offices where the stations are connected by means of subterranean…

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Heavy Gales

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 5

Disastrous gales are causing numerous shipwrecks, and considerable loss of life has occurred In various parts of the United Kingdom…

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Terrible Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 5

Severe floods have occurred in Texas, North America, and an extensive tract of country is inundated. Two hundred persons have been drowned…

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Destructive Gale at St. Vincent

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 3

LLOYD'S agent at St. Vincent, West Indies, under the date August 21, reports:—A heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced here on…

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