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The accounts from this place are deplorable in the extreme. Scores of families have lost everything. Mr. T. S. Hall, of Dartbrook, Mr. L. P. Doyle, Mr. T. White, and Mr. Bowman are said to be the greatest sufferers by the calamity. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The accounts from up-country are very had, and the loss sustained by some of the squatters and settlers at Singleton, Musclebrook, and Scone, are said to be very heavy indeed. In Singleton the river rose ten inches higher than in 1857, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BUT yesterday and the alluvial flats on both sides of the Macquarie were covered with abundant herbage, and by many kitchen gardens belonging, for the most part, to Chinamen. Now the whole are completely submerged. The "murmurs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR condition here is not an enviable one by any means. We have water all round us. The river commenced to [?] yesterday morning, and continued to rise very fast all day. It came up into Mr. Thompson's new flour mill, and destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE flood reached its highest this morning about six o'clock: It now stands still at about fifty feet above its level. All the low parts of Windser are flooded, and although the water did not cross the lower part of George-street, still many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Southern mail train due at Redfern at nine on Wednesday morning, not having arrived at one p.m., a special train was despatched by the Minister for Works to ascertain the cause of detention, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday there was the highest flood ever witnessed in Goulburn. Up to the present, says the Goulburn Herald the flood of 1864 has been the highest known in this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Never since Burrowa became populated by white men has such an immense and devastating flood been witnessed as that of Tuesday last. It had been raining for several days previously," almost without intermission. On Tuesday the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →REFERRING to the amount of damage done on the the Wollondilly and the Mulwarree, the Goulburn Herald regrets to have to announce that the bridge over the former river at Marsden's Crossing-place is destroyed. The centre span,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE 26th of April, 1870, will long be remembered by the inhabitants of the Yass district as a day of calamity and loss. The flood in the Yass River, had, before that day was over, culminated most disastrously in the the total destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named Carey has been drowned in the Marthaguy Creek, near Benda. Another man was also drowned in Bundemah Creek, and another at Narrawinea, during the floods. The bodies have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Now that the water both in the river and upon the submerged lands about West Maitland and its subutbs has subsided, we can see more clearly the extent of the damage which the flood, while it issued, concealed from view…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Carry has been drowned in the Marthaguy Creek, near Benda. Another man was also drowned in Bundemah Creek, and another at Narrawinca, during the floods. The bodies have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following further particulars of the disastrous flood and calamitous loss of life at Denman were communicated to the Maitland Mercury:â I feel it my duty to write and let you know the fearful effect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As showing the vicissitudes that travellers have to pass through in theirjourneyings to these parts, I send you a sketch, which, I hope, may be of some interest to your readers. On Monday night I left Sydney, passing through Campbelltown, Liverpool,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THREE men, and a dot of fourteen years of age, who were employed by Captain Buchanan in stripping the Rangoon on the islet at the mouth of the Minnamurra. against which she was wrecked a few weeks ago, narrowly escaped with their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is my painful duty to inform you of the visitation to our district of the most fearful flood known within the memory of any resident of this part. The damage will be far greater than the flood of 1800, as the flood level was several feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE late flood Las been the highest that was ever known in the history of the district, aid it appears to have been equally a high in other parts of the Southern districts with which there hu been any communication. In some parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE bighest flood ever known here has just swept over our district-spreading ruin and des olation throughout its courso. Tho rain, which had continued with slight intermission for the last ten weeks, set in on monday night last-a perfect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Herald of Saturday gives the following account of the disastrous effects of the flood in the Goulburn district;We regret to have to announce that the bridge over the Mulwarres River at Marsden's Crossing-place is destroyed…
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