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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1838

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Thunder Storm—miraculous Preservation of Life

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 10 January 1838 · page 4

On Sunday morning, the 20th August, Aberdeen and its neighbourhood was visited by a very severe thunder storm, which lasted for an hour and a half. The…

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Lammas' Flood -- Flinn's Rock. a True Story

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1838 · page 4

Who that has travelled the Dublin an Derry road, but must remember the pictures resque little town of Newtownstewart, just twenty miles from Derry, with Bessy Bell…

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Cargo of the "Ann Gales."

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 6 July 1838 · page 2

Six hundred and fifty-five bags 368 casks of sugar, 29 cases of furniture, 2 cases of baberdashers, a quantity of wheat and potatoes of Colonial produce. Messrs. Edwards & Hunger, agents…

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The Storm of Thursday Night Dreadful Accidents

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1838 · page 4

A terrific storm occured on Thursday evening which was strended with serious injury in several persons, and also to property in various parts of the metropolis, the eastern part appears, however, to…

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