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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1883

6 stories in South Coast's papers

Storms

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 1

Look out for storms and see that everything needing protection is under cover. Tighten the shed, make the windows good and mend leaky roofs. It will cost less to secure the comfort of…

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Destructive Floods in America

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 2 August 1883 · page 4

ST. LOUIS, June 24— The Mississippi has everflowed and inundated a large tract of country. This afternoon the water which broke through Madison dyke yesterday, reached a point a short…

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Fury of a Southern Cyclone

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 4 October 1883 · page 1

A VIVID impression of the sudden fury of the Southern cyclone is conveyed by this brief statement of B. F. Jones of Beauregard, Miss., who, the moment he saw the danger coming…

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Tale in Verse. Lost in the Storm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 11 October 1883 · page 2

"Walk in, walk right in, you're welcome; When I how the wind whistles about. Take a chair close to the fire, sir; It's a bad sort of night to be out…

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A Flood in the Melbourne Streets

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 22 November 1883 · page 4

A SUDDEN change in the weather took place on Friday afternoon, the 9th inst. At about 3 o'clock (says the Argus) after a few peals of thander which were accompanied by vivid forked…

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Fury Of a Southern Cyclone

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 December 1883 · page 1

A vivid impression of the sudden fury of the Southern cyclone is conveyed by this brief statement of B. F. Jones of Beauregard, Miss., who, the moment he saw the danger coming…

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