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171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 9
Toulouse, June 25, Morning.—One hundred dead bodies have up to the present been found in the houses floded by the i[?]dation, but left standing. It is [?] that many people perished in…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Details have sow reached us of the misery and devastation caused by the terrible "floods in the South of France. A district of more than 200 miles in extent has been more damaged by flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The details of the disaster caused by the inundations, in the South of France are of a most heartrending character. The St. Cyprien quarter of Toulouse was a perfect sepulchre. The waters had exceeded the usual height by nine inctres, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Panama, July 2.—The WEST COAST MAIL of June 29 says that during the recent storm in the harbour of Valparaiso, forty boys belonging to the training-ship waa drowned, between twenty and…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →London, June 29.—A despatch from Buda Pesth to the Standard says a furious thunder storm passed over that city to-day. The lighting was incessant, and hail fell in [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paris, June 29.—The damage to property by the inundations in the cities of Toulouse and Agen alone exceeds £4,800,000. The heaviest losses are in tho Departments of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The details of the disaster caused by the inundations in the South of France are of a most heartrending character. The waters had exceeded the usual height by nine metres, and…
Continued on Trove, page 279 →ACCOUNTS received from Toulouse, though at present imperfect, show that the calamity is far more terrible than was at first supposed, and it is now believed that some hundreds of persons have perished. Twenty thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mansion House Fund in aid of the sufferers by the floods in France has reached £12,600, not including £2000 received' by the French Consul- General in .London, and what has been collected by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY after 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the NEWSCASTLE PILOT), one of the heaviest wind and dust storms that we have experienced for many years past swept over this city…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A gale of a cyclonic character passed ever the mouth of the Hooghly on the 14th and the morning of the 15th. From the telegraphic weather reports, received at the Meteorological Office, it appeared that on the early morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SHORTLY after 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, one of the heaviest wind and dust storms that we have experienced for many years part swept over this city. The weather for several days previously had been beautifully fine, but…
Continued on Trove, page 307 →Details have now reached us of the misery and devastation caused by the tirrible floods in the South of France. A district of more than 200 miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →GREAT floods are reported all over the [?]chworth district. It commenced to rain yesterday at 2 p.m. and has rained incessantly ever since. It is the heaviest rain known for a long time. Over 6 inches fell in Beechworth. At…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT time-honeured individual supposed to be the oldes inhabitant does not remember having experienced in such a short space, and in such a fitul manner, a down-fall of rain so voluminous as experienced in the Border distric…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER'S correspondent at Albury writes as follows: The Murray has burst over its banks rather extensively-the entire flat from the river to Smallet-street, some thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the NEWCASTLE PILOT), one of the heaviest wind and dust storms that we have experienced for many years past swept over this city. The…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A gale of a cyclonic character passed over the month of the Hooghly on the 14th and the morning of the l5th. From the telegraphic weather reports, received at the Meteorological Office, it appeared that on the early morning…
Continued on Trove, page 341 →Not a few lives were lost in attempting to rescue others. The Marquis D'Hautpoul perished at Toulouse in this manner when the flood was at its height, but not till he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable damage was done by the floods on the 22nd August. The water rushed into North and Scohlar's cellar as it flowed into the culvert opposite, and destroyed about 70 dozen American chairs and a quantity of bedding…
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