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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1869

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Great Floods, Shipwrecks, and Loss of Life

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 May 1869 · page 3

THE last two or three days have, indeed, been a time to conjure up thoughts of those in danger by flood and on the ocean and a hope that in each case there might…

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Storms and Wrecks

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 May 1869 · page 4

Heavy gales occurred on March 19 and 20, which were attended with disastrous results on some parts of the English coast. At Hoyle, in Cornwall, the National…

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A City Swept Away by a Flood

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 June 1869 · page 4

The Mexican city, Alamos, Sonora, has been destroyed by a flood. On the 15th December wind and rain storm set in, lasting until the 18th. It seemed as if the very…

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