Floods in Germany and Switzerland
BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Disastrous floods are reported to have taken place in the Grand Duchy of Baden, causing the rivers to overflow their banks at…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
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BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Disastrous floods are reported to have taken place in the Grand Duchy of Baden, causing the rivers to overflow their banks at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 2.—Floods in Germany have wholly destroyed five villages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, January 4.—The floods in Germany have rendered ten thousand persons in the city of Worms houseless. Vienna is also threatened with destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BERLIN, Jan. 3.—The rainfall in Austrlia and Germany continues to be of an exceptionally heavy character, and has resulted in increased floods in the low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, January 10.—20,000 persons have been rendered homeless through the recent overflow of the Rhino. Great distress prevails in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, January 15.—The floods in Southern Hungary continue. The damage already done in the Rhine land is estimated at £4,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting will be held at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, on Thursday, for the purpose of collecting funds for the relief of the sufferers by the late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Hawkesbury River rose twenty feet at Windsor on Sunday, submerging the bridge at South Creek, which overflowed its banks. A considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The heaviest flood ever known has taken place at Wollongong. Much damage has been done in the Macquarie district. The coach between Dapto…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APPEALS from almost every portion of the habitable globe have of late years unfortunately been of too frequent occurrence in calling for our pecuniary assistance in cases…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram to the Echo dated Melbourne, Tuesday, states:—The Orient liner Sorats, which arrived early this morning from Sydney, experienced extremely rough weather on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the City Council, to-day, the following letter was read:—"Ottawa, Canada, 23rd Dec., 1882. To his Worship the Mayor of Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, February 12. Disastrous floods have occurred in Cincinnatti. The waters are extending for twenty miles wide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OTTAWA, O[?]t., December 21, 1882.—Dr. Wiggins, in reply to a letter from Mr. Harwell, city surveyor of New York, who has the direction of extensive marine works, now in progress, asking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 16.—The river Ohio has risen to the unprecedented height of 67ft. above its ordinary level. In Cincinnati boats are sailing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, February 18.—Great floods in Cincinnati have rendered fifty thousand persons homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, February 19.—The floods in the United States are subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letter appeared in Wednesday's S. M. Herald:— Sir,—I fear Professor E. Stone Wiggins, LL.D., etc., has very much to answer for, for the peace of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The particulars arriving as to the sufferings of the population of the inundated towns of Raab and Gran are truly heartrending. The catastrophe at Raab almost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Victorian Government Astronomer predicts a great storm on March 9th…
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