Those Awful Floods. The Plight of Walgett. The Town may be Wiped Out SYDNEY
The flood waters are racing upon Walgett, and it is expected they will reach there to-day. The greater part of the country is…
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The flood waters are racing upon Walgett, and it is expected they will reach there to-day. The greater part of the country is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brewarrina is preparing for the worst. Walgett is now surrounded by the flood waters. Twenty families are flooded out of their homes and are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The w[?]less day was heavy with unrest. As though the troubled summer, swooning, dreamed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gangs of railway men are now repairing the washed-away railway lines in the North. Between Emerald Hill and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The floods in France have greatly extended. The Paris correspondent of the "Times" writes that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Both the rivers continue to rise at Walgett. Miles of country are deeply submerged. The water in many places is close to the town. The extent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tho damage caused by the flood at Narrabri was just as widespread and destructive as that caused at Tamworth. Tamworth was isolated from Narrabri on…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →As anticipated, Walgett. was caught by the flood waters from the rising Barwon and Namoi rivers. On Monday evening the flood had isolated the town into an…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Studmasters did not escape altogether from the effects of the recent flode in New South Wales. Those in the Moree district; were visited…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →T radio on the Paris-Orleans railway has been suspended airing to floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—On behalf of our farmers and settlers in the flood afflicted districts, doubtless many of your readers have read of the disasters which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thousands of people were rescued from the floods in the eastern suburbs of Paris yesterday, and 600 are still clinging to the submerged dwellings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga was the centre of the severe storm which passed over the southern portion of the State during Thursday evening and yesterday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thursday was one of the most trying days this year. The glass ran up to 108, and as evening came on the clouds began to gather from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Barwon and Namoi rivers are falling at Walgett. A man named Williams and his son, from Lightning Ridge, after walking over ten miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Snow-falls continue to swell the volume of the Seine. Water is pouring over the parapets and embankments, and a lake which is forming has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A heavy storm occurred at Glenariff, near Nyngan, when 5 miles of railway fence was blown down and washed away A number of iron telegraph poles were bent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At storm of wind, bail, and rain visited, Wallendbeen last week, and the wind lifted the roof off Mr. G, F. Sackett's fine large store, 80 by 40…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The town of Brewarrina, situated in the north-west, on the Darling, has been partially wrecked by a terrific cyclone which swept the country in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The river Seine is falling steadily. Each portion of Paris has been placed under a board of architects, engineers, and sanitary experts; and a…
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