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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1883

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Floods in Germany and Switzerland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1883 · page 3

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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Floods in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1883 · page 2

LONDON, January 2.—Floods in Germany have wholly destroyed five villages…

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(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) The German Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 4

LONDON, January 4.—The floods in Germany have rendered ten thousand persons in the city of Worms houseless. Vienna is also threatened with destruction…

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Floods in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1883 · 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…

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CABLEGRAMS The Rhine Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 January 1883 · page 2

LONDON, January 10.—20,000 persons have been rendered homeless through the recent overflow of the Rhino. Great distress prevails in…

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The Continental Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1883 · 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…

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The Late Floods in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 3

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…

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The Hawkesbury Flooded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Hawkesbury River rose twenty feet at Windsor on Sunday, submerging the bridge at South Creek, which overflowed its banks. A considerable…

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Heavy Flood at Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1883 · 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…

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The Late Floods in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1883 · 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…

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The Steamship Sorata in a Gale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 February 1883 · 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…

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A Torrible Storm Prophoeiod

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1883 · 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,…

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Disastrous Floods in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1883 · page 2

LONDON, February 12. Disastrous floods have occurred in Cincinnatti. The waters are extending for twenty miles wide…

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That Great March Storm. Dr. Wiggins and His Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 February 1883 · page 4

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…

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Floods in United States

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 February 1883 · page 2

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…

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Floods in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1883 · page 2

LONDON, February 18.—Great floods in Cincinnati have rendered fifty thousand persons homeless…

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The Floods in the United States

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 February 1883 · page 2

LONDON, February 19.—The floods in the United States are subsiding…

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The Great Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1883 · 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…

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The Floods on the Continent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1883 · page 3

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…

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The Great Storm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Victorian Government Astronomer predicts a great storm on March 9th…

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