A Tale of the Queensland Flood
ON the night of Monday, January 13, the Glastonbury Creek, at Glastonbury hamlet, 13 miles from Gympie, rose in sudden flood,…
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Floods & storms, 1890
171 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 9
Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. Bad Flood
Two brothers at Rutherglen are suffering from blood-poisoning, caused through skinning a cow that had dropped dead. REDUCED TO PULP…
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To detail the different accounts which have come from the various flooded districts would nigh fill a sheet of your pager, and prove but dry reading, as it would simply be a…
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AT a quarter past 2 o'clock this morning, a gun fired from the fortifications gave warning that a vessel was in danger. Captain Bain, who was on duty at the signal station,…
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A VERY narrow escape from death by lightning happened to a surveyor's party, near Stroud, last Saturday. It appears that the assistant and the chainman were in the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The recent rains have caused an extensive flood at Marrickville, but so far no damage of a serious character has resulted. At 8 o'clock this morning…
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On Wednesday a waterspout burst on the Cooktown railway, washed away 20ft of rails, and inundated the line to a depth of 30ft. The northern line is partially submerged near…
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ON Sunday evening word was received at the Newcastle railway station that heavy rains were falling between Singleton and Murrurundi, and in consequence…
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At 2 o'clock this morning it was reported from Maitland that the water had gone down eight inches, and that matters were therefore improving. The passengers from the north…
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The River at West Maitland reached its greatest height at 7 o'clock last evening, when the gauge on Belmore Bridge showed 31ft 10in. At 10 o'clock it had fallen 2in,…
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NEW YORK, Monday.—The flood at Prescott, Arizona, occasioned by the bursting of a dam, has submerged the adjacent town of Wickenburg. A few persons only escaped…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday Night.—Authentic details have at length been received from Prescott regarding the fate of Wickenburg, towards which the flood waters swept on the…
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CAPETOWN, Sunday.—Captain Jorgensen and his mate Nelsen, who left London on the 12th of September in the new patent lifeboat Storm King, arrived here to-day from…
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Now that the floods in the central district are subsiding, the railway line has been found to be extensively damaged in many places, but through traffic has been resumed, though…
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The Government meteorologist issued the following memo at 8 o'clock to-night:—"Southern shipping should be on the alert for a tropical disturbance now…
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A packer named Cronin had a sensational experience whilst driving his pack-horses on the ranges of the Victorian Upper Murray during the late thunderstorm. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Northern Rivers in Flood. People Rescued in Boats. a Disastrous State of Affairs. SYDNEY
REPORTS of serious floods are to hand. At Kempsey the river is rising, and the water is round the post office, rushing with great force. The stream is into the back streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir Henry Parkes at Armidale. Stopped by a Flooded Creek. SYDNEY
WHILE travelling from Hillgrove to Armidale Sir Henry Parkes this morning had an unpleasant experience. Baker's Creek, four miles from Hillgrove, was almost impassable…
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THIS afternoon, the news was received here that the Sydney-owned schooner Agnes had been driven ashore about six miles north of Brunswick Heads and totally wrecked, all…
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Heavy rains have been falling all over the watershed of the Hunter, and at noon yesterday, the river commenced to rise rapidly. At Armidale, Tamworth, Murrurundi, and…
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