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Floods & storms, 1874

10 stories in Riverina's papers

Gundagai Local News. Terrific Hail Storm

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 2

THE stillness of the sultry, sunshiny days we have experienced for the past week or two in Gundagai was, on Tuesday last, broken by the most violent storm that has ever visited…

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Adelong Local News. Great Flood

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1874 · page 2

IF this colony possessed witches with tastes as to places of meeting resembling those of the weird sisters who encountered Macbeth on the blasted heath, they would have enjoyed several…

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Extensive Floods in the Maitland and Tamworth Districts

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1874 · page 2

By telegram from Morpeth we hear the river on Tuesday had reached the level of the great flood of 1870. It is now stationary. The weather is fine, but cloudy. There has been great destruction of…

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Great Flood at Adelong

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1874 · page 6

IF this colony possessed withes with tastes as to places of meeting resembling those of the weird sisters who encountered Macbeth on the blasted heath, they would have…

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Drowned in the Flood Water at Maitland

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 11 February 1874 · page 4

THE Maitland Mercury reports that a young man named Thomas M'Adam Wehster was drowned in the flood water on Pools Farm, L chend, on Saturday morning, 31st January…

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Great Storm and Loss of Life

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 6

A FEW days since a violent gale broke over the midland and northern parts of England. At Sheffield the most serious results occurred. In Trippett-lane a chimney-stack fell, killing…

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The Gale at Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1874 · page 6

After the most protracted gale that has been experienced along this coast for several years past, the weather moderated on Monday, and has since been fine and clear. The…

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Violent Storm at Bathurst

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 20 May 1874 · page 6

ON Monday last (says the Bathurst Times) the people of Bathurst experienced a storm which, for violence, has perhaps never been equalled in this district, though fortunately…

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Great Flood

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 4

A despatch gives the particulars of a great flood at Nashville. Tennessee. The Cumberland rose from five feet deep and nearly a mile wide. All the business houses in…

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The Louisiana Flood —The Greatest Calamity of the Century

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1874 · page 6

HENRY G. CROWELL of Massachusetts, who visited New Orleans as a commissioner for the purpose of ascertaining what use was being made of the fund contributed by the…

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