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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1875

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Great Snow Storm

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 4

A correspondent writing from the North on January 2, says: "Dozens of trains were snowed up all night, and the sufferings of the passengers,…

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The Great Ice Floods

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 May 1875 · page 3

Fort Deposit, March 19.—The people seemed to become more excited as the water rose, and the crashing of the lumber rafts, &c., caused by the…

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Earthquakes, Storms, Explosions and Other Disasters

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 July 1875 · page 4

Details are arriving of the earth quakes in Asia Minor early in May. Several villages were destroyed and over 2000 lives lost. A severe…

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The Great Floods in France

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 4

New York, July 11.—European mail advices just received give the details of the great floods in France. One sixth of the soil of the country…

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Terrific Storm at Newcastle

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 3

SHORTLY after four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the Newcastle Pilot), one of the heaviest wind and dust storms that we have…

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Terrible Floods in Wales and the West of England. Great Loss of Life and Destrction of Property

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 4

IN the West of England the del[?]ge has been heavier than in any other district, many portions of Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucestershire being…

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The Steamship Hero in a Gale

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 2

THE steamer Hero on her passage from Sydney encountered a fearful cyclone, during which the second officer, Mr John Wisner, aged twenty…

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