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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1899

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Disastrous Storm in Spain. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 5

A storm at San Perro, Volladolid, Spain, destroyed 160 houses, and 10 persons were killed…

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Floods at Maynardville. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 5

FLOODS have occurred at San Santa, Maynardville, 20 persons having met their death by drowning…

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Heavy Floods

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 3

Daring a heavy storm at San Pedro, Spam, 160 bouses were destroyed, 10 persona being killed. Heavy weather prevails in the United States. A cloud burst at Austin, Texas, and 25 - persons lost…

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Floods

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 3

Heavy floods are prevailing throughout the Island…

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The Murray in Flood

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1899 · page 3

Tim river Murray is id flood, and all low lying lauds are. submerged. A number of land owners have been compelled to remove their stock from the frontage…

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Appalling floods in America Serious Loss of Life

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 4

Appealing floods have [?]curred in Texas, in the United States, a track of country 500 miles long and 50 miles wide being submerged…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. A Phenomenal Rainfall. a Serious Flood Feared

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 3

Since Saturday, eighteen inches of rain here fallen on the Clarence River, being the record for many years. All the low lying portion of the…

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Floods

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 3

Further coastal rams fell yesterday. The storm has somewhat subsided, though there is still a heavy sea. Great damage has been done to the dairying…

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The Storm on the Tweed. a Man and Horse Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 2

Heavy rain commenced to fall at Murwillumbah on Sunday morning and continued without intermission until 8 a.m. on Monday. The river…

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The Recent Easterly Gale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 3

TERRIBLE weather was experienced on the Australian coast last week, when one of the most severe easterly gales was encountered that has been experienced for many years…

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Terrible Cyclone

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 8

The following is a description of the cyclone which uprooted New Richmond in Winconsin, U. S.:" New Richmond, with 2000 inhabitants, has…

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Did She Know the Storm Was Coming?

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 2

A swan, belonging to a gentleman, was sitting on her eggs on an island in a river. One morning her owner found her very busy collecting Sticks and other rubbish, and…

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

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 August 1899 · page 3

Bad weather continues, and rain fell all Sunday. It is showery to-day, with a heavy sea along the coast. The Gundagai river is over its banks. A serious flood is feared…

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Disastrous Floods in Chili. a Train Derailed. Fifty Persons Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 5

Disastrous flood have occurred at santhe capital of Chili. A train, while crossing a bridge, fell into the riverr and 50 pereons were drowned…

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Floods In he Hunter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 2

LAST week the valley of the Hunter was inundated, causing the loss of three lives and destruction of much property. The flood was at its highest on Friday, but it did not…

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Latest From the Seat of War. the Wrecked Train. Tremendous Heavy Rain. Boers Fortifying Lang's Nek. Boers Strongly Entrenched at T[?]va Pass. Free Staters Assisting the Boers. Tuesday, 2 p.m

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 October 1899 · page 5

In connection with the recent capture of the British armoured train, the Boers continued firing for thirteen minutes after the flag of truce was displayed…

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What a Cyclone is Like

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1899 · page 4

IT was my good or ill fortune to be an eyewitness of one of the devastating tornadoes that often sweep American soil. About half past six on the afternoon of April 26, 1899, I left my…

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Stewed Gale's Liver

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1899 · page 1

Take a pound of liver, two ounces of butter, two onions, one tablespoonful of floor, salt, pepper, one teaspoonful mushroom ketchup, three quarters of a pint water…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 110. The Pine Tree (continued)--Filling the Boxes--Duration of Yield--American Tar--The Pitch Pine--Description--Bark --Wood--Soil--The White Pine--Qualities --Leaves--Cones--Soil--Trunk -- Resisting Gales--Young Stocks--Wood--Use fulness--The Cypress--The Evergreen Cypress-- Varieties--Timber--Instances of Durability--For musical instruments furniture, and general building--Life of Cypress--The White Cedar--As a Timber Tree--Arbor Viise --Description and Use --Soil--Propagation

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1899 · page 1

During a fortnight, which is employed in this first operation, the boxes become filled, when the consents are taken out and conveyed into casks by wooden ladles: To…

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Latest Up to Publication. Sydney, Monday. 620 pm Heavy Rain

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1899 · page 3

At the National Rifle Association meeting to-day the weather was bad and the ground nearly covered with water. Three and a half inches of ram have fallen since Saturday…

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