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47 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
There has just issued from the press, the first of an intended series of "Narratives of Storms, by Sea-Commanders." [Narratives written by Sea-Commanders, illustrative, of the Law of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our correspondent, under date February 1st, writes as follows:- "This flood hns been the most serious and disastrous that has yet occurred, so far as destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yachters seldom encounter such perils as fell to the lot of the Owen Glendower, the property of Mr. Moore, of Moorehill, Waterford. The facts have been already briefly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By a long series of observations it has been found that Domestic Storms, like other storms, are rotatory or in other words, they move in a circle, and come round at regular intervals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE speck which appeared on the horizon is obscuring the entire heavens. Darkly, rapidly, portentously, the clouds thicken and spread. That the storm will burst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?] gale watch swept along the Caannel and eastern coast during the whole of last Saturday and Sunday has been productivo of the most Bcrious disasters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every hour brings tidings of fresh disaster, and on all sides the reeeding waters reveal their work of destruction At: Bates' Ford, the Marrabool swept over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent, dating Gundaroo, June 28th, 1852, w[?]es as follows:—"After several days beavy rain, on Wednesday last, the Gundar[?] River rose to an unusuar height, the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rain began to fall on Sunday morning last, and continued to pour in [?] [?]ents, with little intermission until this morning. About mid-day on Wednesday, the river began to rise,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Wednesday night last, Goulturn and its vicinity were visited by one of those fearfol calamities which no foresight can avert, and which are usually attended with great destruction to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About midnight of Wednesday last, this township and its neighbourhood were visited by a flood, more destructive to property and life than any that has occurred for the last fifteen years. During the latter part of last week there were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →JUNE 30.—Many are of opinion that there will be a second flood before long. The Mulwarree continued to go down till this morning, when the rain, which fell during last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 28.âI beg leave to forward you a brief account of a dreadful flood we have just been visited with, at Gundagai. Though the river had been rising for some days previous, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the most fearful catastrophes which it has ever been our lot to record will be found reported in another column. The village of Gundagai has been almost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YASS, JUNE 29.—Never within the memory of either black or white man has there been such a disastrous and fatal visitation in these unhappy districts, under the fatal effects of which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE floods at the Murrumbidgee appear to have been even more disastrous than was at first reported, fearful as was that report. Instead of seventy there have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWS reached Goulburn on Wednesday night of the nearly total destruction by flood of the town of Gundagai, with the loss of between seventy and eighty lives—only three houses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SUNDAY NIGHT.âIntelligence has just reached me of the total destruction of the township of Wagga Wagga by flood: only five persons have been saved! Every thing is in such a state of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →July 4.âI wrote you a few burried lines by Friday's post, informing you of the nearly total destruction of Gundagai by flood. As doubtless many of your readers are aware the township in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News reached Goulburn on Wednesday night of the nearly total destruction by flood of the town of Gundagai, with the loss of between 70 and 80 lives -- only three houses are said to have been left standing…
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