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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1898

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Disastrous Flood in the Valley. a Repetition of the Flood 28 Years Ago. Computed Fall of Rain About 20 Inches. the Valley to Barrengarry a Huge Lake. the Public Road Impassable the Town Cut Off. Houses Inundated to the Roofs. the Old Bridge Swept Away Holus Bolus. Immense Destruction of Property. Horses, Cattle, and Poultry Drowned

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

When on Wednesday last a terrific hot day was succeeded by a a sudden southerly change bringing with it smoke almost…

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The Storm. Wind, Rain, and Flood. Severe Gales. Shipwrecks and Loss of Many Lives. Heaviest Rainfall for Years. the Shoalihaven Rises 15 FEET

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1898 · page 2

No sooner was the Shonlhaven Agricultural Show over on Friday than the threatening rain commenced to fall, and continued for a great part of Friday night. On Saturday the weather…

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The Floods !

Moruya Examiner · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 3

THE extraordinary heat of Wednesday last indeed proved a climax to the unusually hot and dry season through which the colony has just emerged, since that day also heralded the…

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The Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 2

THE rain which started in Boga on Wednesday, 9th instant, continued until a little after midnight on Monday, and in all 27.30 inches, or more than…

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Storm and Flood

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 2

The heavy downpour of rain extending form Saturday night till Monday morning has been responsible for considerable damage. A heavy gale of wind proved destructive to coasting…

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Rain and Gale

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 5

The late rain was the heaviest experienced for a great many years, the total fall aggregating over 10 inches. The second instalment commenced on Saturday night…

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Disastrous Flood in Kangaroo Valley. the Old Bridge Carried Away

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 2

Last Tuesday's Kangaroo Valley Times gives the following account of the flood there:— When on Wednesday last a terrific hot…

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Storm at Mount Kosciusko

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 2

MR. BERNARD INOLERY, chief observer at the Mount Kosciusko Observatory recently established by Mr. Clement Wragge, has wired us from Jindabyne the following…

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Fearful Storm on the Coast

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 4

OWING to the space occupied by the description of our local floods, we were unable in last issue to mention the fearful storm that raged along the…

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The Flood in the Valley

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 2

As far as we can learn, there is not a farmer or resident in this wide and scattered district but what suffered more or less severely from last week’s visitation of…

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The Late Storm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 4

Particulars with respect to the effects of the recent gale at Macquarie Pass, where some 80 men engaged forming a now road, show that fearful haves was caused in that…

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The Flood in the Valley

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 4

As far as we can learn, there is not a farmer or resident in this wide and scattered district but what has suffered more or less severely from last week's visitation of [?]onic…

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The Recent Flood To the Editor of the Moruya EXAMINER

Moruya Examiner · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 2

DEAR SIR, — I had hoped that some one would have taken up the cause of those [?] farmers who have lost almost everything by the recent disastrous flood. Moruya people are not alow to hand pure…

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The Storm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 2

THE fearful storm which raged along the coast on Thursday and Friday, and which has continued with more or loss fury ever since, [?]as left a sad record of death and…

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A Fresh and a Flood

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 November 1898 · page 3

A very heavy general rainfall has to be recorded as having taken place throughout the country during the week, and while the downfall will prove of incalculable benefit to…

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