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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1899

48 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3

Why Milk Sours in Lightning Storms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 3

THUNDER is merely the noise due to the passing of lightning through the air, just as the noise of a discharged gun is heard. But the lightning has a…

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Thunderstorm

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1899 · page 2

A Heavy thunderstorm, passed over Sydney this afternoon but only lasted a few minutes…

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Terrific Gale. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 5

ENORMOUS damage has been done by a gale. The lighthouse at Portcawl has been demolished, several steeples were blown…

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London. Sunday. Terrific Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

During a great gale in Wales, in which a goods tram was washed off the line by the heavy sea and the driver and stoker drowned, the breakers carried away portions of the…

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Violent Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 4

During a violent storm at New Zealand yesternight a horse and its rider were killed by lightning. Great damage waa done to the crops…

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Calms More Deadly Than Storms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 7

A VERY big gale will root up trees, but so will the very stillest kind of calms. This is the calm of a very hard frost—it is far stiller than…

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Floods. Brisbane

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 5

THE river M'Intyre is in flood, and all the surrounding country is under water…

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Brisbane. in Flood

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 3

The River M'Intyre is in flood and all the surrounding country is under water…

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The West-Ward Election. cALM Before the Storm. Determined Organisation

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 5

The calm that the precedes storm, is brooding ominously over the west Ward. The patrictic withdrawal of Messrs Arthur and Jones so completely…

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Hunter River Floods. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1899 · page 5

MR. NAPIER BELL has been appointed by the Government to inquire into and report on the best means of mitigating the floods in the Hunter River…

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Storm at Muswellbrook

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 2

A terrific thunderstorm passed over Muswellbrook on Tuesday. It raided with extraordinary violence, and blew…

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Snowstorms, Blizzards, & Floods. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 5

SNOWSTORMS and blizzards have occurred in Eastern and floods in Western America. Villages have been destroyed, and…

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A Frightful Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 5

A fierce storm has ravaged Buenos Ayres. 300,000 tons of wheat have been destroyed, and the general damage is enormous…

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Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1899 · page 3

A heavy gale occurred along the coast yesterday, and several steamers had to return to port for shelter, The Seal Rocks report that a steamer like…

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Gale Along the Coast. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1899 · page 5

A HEAVY gale raged along the coast yesterday. Several steamers had to return to port for shelter. Seal Rocks reported that a steamer…

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Our Special Cables. [Reuter's Service.—copyright.] the Cyclone at Missouri. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 5

FURTHER particulars to hand in connection with the disastrous cyclone at Missouri, United States, state that 40 more deaths have to be recorded…

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A Mine Flooded. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 5

A MINE at Iroisk, in Russia, became flooded, and 62 persons met their death…

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How a Cyclone Works

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 3

CUBA is stated by Mr. Ellicot, of the United States navy, in an article in the St. Nicholas to be the cradle of the cyclones that…

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Eleven Days in a Flooded Pit

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 2

A collier nemed Frank Tranter,aged fortyseven, living at Layley, near Wellington, Salop, has had a most extraordinary experience. He left his home early on Easter…

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Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) Sydney. Monday, 12.20 a.m. Heavy Rain

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1899 · page 3

Rain, more or less heavy, is reported from a number of places inland, and nine and a half inches have fallen in Sydney during the past nine days. It is raining this morning…

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