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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1899

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Storm at Wellington

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 5

A terrific storm passed over Wellington this afternoon, the whole of the side of the Catholic Church being demolished. Also at part of Cummins' budding was completely…

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Great Storm at Wellington

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 5

ON Wednesday a fierce and most destructive storm passed over the town of Wellington. The day before (Tuesday) a high wind blow, but it abated towards evening, and the night…

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Caught in a Cyclone

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Gayndah states that Mr. J. J. Keenan has passed through from St. Helena with 1100 bullocks for Widgen Station. Keenan reports that when between Hawkwood…

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Terrific Gale

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 3

CABLEGRAMS from London state that as a goods train of the London and North Western Railway Company. Lound for Manchester, was passing [?], a…

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Floods in Western Australia

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 3

Severe floods have occurred over a wide area of country near Perth, being the result of a phenomenal rainfall. All mails and telegraph lines were interrupted…

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Terrific Storm

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 6

A terri[?]e storm occurred at Murrwillimbah yesterday. Five inches of rain fell in four hours. No serious casualties are reported…

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The Queensland Floods

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 6

The Mel[?]tyre River, Queensland, is in flood, and the surrounding country is under water…

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Floods in Queensland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 6

Heavy floods are reported from Southern Queensland…

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Terrific Storm. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 5

A terrific storm has swept over the Atlantic. The Cunard liner Lucania fought the storm for 16 hours, Oil was poured on the water, but proved useless…

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A Grave Storm

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 4

To those who have had no actual experience of the dust storms in the back country, the accounts given from time to time in the provincial newspapers of their…

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The Atlantic Storms. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 24 February 1899 · page 6

Further details have been received of the disablement in the Atlantic of the Cunard steamer Pavonia. For 20 days she was adrift and experienced terrific weather…

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Storms in the Atlantic

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 1 March 1899 · page 2

A vessel has arrived at Baltimore with four persons who were picked up in the Atlantic from one of the boats of the steamer Bulgaria, which was abandoned…

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Storm at North Queensland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 5

The captain of the steamer Duke of Norfolk, reports indications of a severe storm on the North Queensland coast. Beacons have been washed away and boats stranded…

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Heavy Thunderstorm at Bathurst

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 4

ABOUT 3.30 on Sunday a dense, blinding duststorm visited Bathurst, and it was immediately followed by sharp hail, and thunderstorm, which unfortunately ceased as suddenly as it…

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Terrific Thunderstorm at [?] Considerable Damage

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 2

A TERRIBLY heavy thunderstorm passed over the Bathurst district on Sunday afternoon. It came on very suddenly. At…

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The Latest Telegram. Storm at the Camp. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1899 · page 3

Terrific rain has fallen, and the camp is flooded. The recreation and other tents have been blown down, and one man injured by the recreation tent pole striking…

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The Storm in Northern Queensland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 11 April 1899 · page 3

The bodies of victims are seen along the coast, and all vegetation has been levelled for forty miles…

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Terrific Gales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 3

Terrific gales swept the New Zealand coast on Saturday. They completely disorganised the shipping. The wind blew with hurricane force, and the rain fell in torrents…

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The Coming Deluge

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 3

IT would be inconvenient, to say the least, if London were some day to find itself at the bottom of several miles of water. Yet some [?] assert that such a thing is not at all…

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Heavy Rain on the Coast. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1899 · page 3

Rain continues Over four inches have fallen in the city, also on the coast and highlands, and parts of the central division, but rain has not reached the…

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