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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1895

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Great Snow Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1895 · page 5

A terrible snow storm is reported in the English Channel. The Ramsgate lifeboat and a tug are missing…

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Our Wires. Sydney. Monday, 11.50 a.m. Terrible Gales

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1895 · page 3

THE gale has moderated, and it is fine today, but threatening. Only a few showers fell yesterday. It is estimated that the gale on Saturday was the worst for 40 years. It…

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Severe Storm at Singleton. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1895 · page 5

BETWEEN 9 and 10 o'clock on Wednesday night a remarkably severe thunderstorm, accompanied with vivid lightning and hail, passed over Singleton. Rough pieces of…

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Storm at Singleton

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1895 · page 3

Between 9 and 10 o'clock on Wednesday night a remarkably severe thunderstorm accompanied with vivid lightniag and hail passed over…

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Heavy Rain. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

A SHOWER of rain fell on Saturday afternoon, and was one of the heaviest experienced in Sydney for a long time, eight points of rain falling in twenty minutes. A…

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Severe Hail Storms. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 5

SEVERE hail storms are recorded in the Temora and Parramat[?]a districts, and considerable damage has been done by the hailstones at Parramatta, which were 2[?] inches…

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The Late Floods. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1895 · page 5

AN official report of the Agricultural Department states that accounts of the losses by flood in the Hunter District are not at all exaggerated. Probably the…

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Heavy Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 4

Red Range, Glen lanes, experienced the heaviest storm on record yesterday. Pieces of ice, two inches in circumference, fell, killing…

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Great Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 6

A hurricane of unusual violence has been experienced in the Mediterranean. The storm caused extensive damage, especially amongst the…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Terrible Gale in England. Houses Blown Down

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 2

Terrible gales have occurred in the south of England. A number of churches and warehouses were unroofed, and six vessels were wrecked,…

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An Incident of the Queensland Floods. a Boy Seven Days in a Tree

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 March 1895 · page 4

The Winton (Queensland) Herald (gives the following Incident that Happened during the late floods in that locality, it eays:—A man…

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The Weather in England. TERRIFIC GALES.—Loss of Life

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 3

LONDON, March 25.—Terrific gales have swept over London and the southern midland countries in England. Peterborough Cathedral and many churches and…

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The Recent Gales in England

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 3

The heavy gate which swept over thf southern and midland counties of England on Sunday proved very destructive in many parts of London…

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Hunter River Flood Prevention

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 3

ON Thursday a deputation from the Hunter River district interviewed the Minister for Works with reference to a scheme for the mitigation of floods. It was pointed out by…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Floods in Queensland. Six Persons Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 2

A heavy flood has occurred at Port Douglas, Queensland. Six persons were drowned…

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Floods in North Queensland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 3

NEWS has been brought [?] by the Daintree mailman of the loss of six lives on Friday night. The river rose 8ft. higher than the highest flood previously…

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Disastrous Cyclone

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1895 · page 3

A cyclone has swept over the States of Dakota and Ohio, America, doing great damage. Over a hundred persons are reported to have been killed. Some children…

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Cyclone in America. [By Cable.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1895 · page 5

A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the states of Dakato and Ohio, America, doing great damage. Over 100 hundred persons are reported to have been killed, and some…

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Teruible Cyclone in America

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 May 1895 · page 3

A cyclone has swept over the states of South Dakota and Iowa, doing enormous damage to property. Over 100 persons are reported to bave…

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Heavy Gales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1895 · page 5

A STRONG westerley gale has been blowing air day and connection or the heavy sea the P. and O. steamer, Arcadin, has been detained in harbour…

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