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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
171 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 9
RAIN still continues in the North. The Normanton river has submerged the whole lower portion of the town. Trains have ceased running owing to the railway being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious floods have occurred at Townsville and Charters Towers. Railway traffic has been temporarily stopped. A large number of cattle are being washed down by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The floods at Normanton are decreasing. The surrounding country is still 8ft under water. Mail and telegraphic communication are stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PEKIN, Wednesday.—A waterspout has occurred at Nankin, causing a flood in the Yang-tee Kiang river. Over a hundred persons have been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE festive season has come and gone in Brisbane with so little stir that it is difficult to recognise we have crept into the nineties. Not that it was any the worse for being a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, Monday.—A disastrous cyclone, accompanied by sleet and storm, has been raging in the State of Illinois. Great danger has been caused to churches and stores in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEW YORK, Tuesday.—News has been received of a terrific gale, accompanied by heavy rains, which swept over Ontario and Quebec. Immense and widespread damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TERRIBLE floods occurred at Glastonbury Creek, 13 miles from Gympie, on Monday night. The creek, which is ordinarily a shallow stream, rose in consequence of heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN response to a telegram from the warden at Grafton, intimating that some 60 miners were, in consequence of the floods, prevented from leaving Dalmorton and were without…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—In consequence of a terrific gale a tremendous tide swamped the esplanades at Brighton, Hastings, and Sandgate, all of which sustained much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARIS, Thursday.—A storm of tempestuous force was experienced to-day at Havre, a seaport on the English Channel. A terrific sea was raised, which invaded the low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Gales and deluges of rain have been experienced during the past few days, and have caused great havoc in Great Britain and Ireland, especially in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a thunderstorm a fatal accident occurred at Geeveston on Monday afternoon. Two girls, Annie Bennett and Ethel Harwood, were washing at a rivulet and took…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A heavy rainfall yesterday has caused floods in various parts of the colony. Washaways have occurred on the railway lines at Hawker, Riverton, Hamley Bridge, Balaclava,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Maryborough on Saturday many houses were washed away, and immense damage was done to low-lying parts of the town which were covered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bowen was visited with another cyclone on Thursday. The wind blow for several hours with tremendous velocity, but fortunately only the edge of the cyclone touched the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TELEGRAM from Richmond this evening states that the river is 17ft over the bridge, and the rise is now at the rate of nine inches per hour and increasing. The low lands in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. BAGOT, local agent of the Newcastle Steamship Company, received a telegram yesterday from Morpeth, stating that the Hunter River was rising at Singleton and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Konoowarra arrived in Sydney this morning from Brisbane, after an exceedingly rough passage of 93 hours. The sails were split into ribbons by the force of the gale, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE steamer Burrumbeet, with the schooner Hally Bayley in tow, arrived in port shortly after 5 o'clock this morning, and the latter vessel was brought to an anchorage below…
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