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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1882

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9

Heavy Gale at Newcastle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 June 1882 · page 6

A heavy south-west gale set in last night, bringing up a heavy sea. This morning the weather was thick and rainy. The sea has been breaking very heavily across the bar and in the Bight. The schooner Catherine Agnes, daring…

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Heavy Rain at Parramatta. PARRAMATTA

Evening News · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 2

Rain fell during the night incessantly, being the heaviest downpour ever remembered here. A heavy fresh is running over the town dam, and parts of the new handrail and loose timber were…

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The Syren in a Gale

Evening News · Saturday 10 June 1882 · page 3

Advices have been received from Brisbane this morning, stating that the brig Syren, from Kaipana May 20, bound for Sydney, with a cargo of timber, has taken refuge in Moreton Bay. She has lost Joshua…

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The Barque Frederica a Gale. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Saturday 17 June 1882 · page 4

The barque Frederica arrived in Newcastle yesterday, lifter a 24 days' passage from Geelong. Her cargo consists of 100 tons of flour, the balance being made up of hay, chaff, and other…

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Floods and Droughts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 6

The subject of which the first mo[?]ety of this pamphlet treats is, without doubt, one of premier importance in these colonies. In our vast interior the occurrence of one or the other of these…

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Terrific Cyclone in Iowa

Evening News · Monday 26 June 1882 · page 2

LONDON, June 25.—A terrific cyclone has visited Emmetsburg, in Iowa, by which a hundred persons were killed…

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Terrific Cyclone in Iowa. London, June. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 June 1882 · page 5

A terriffic cyclone has visited Emmetsburg, in Iowa, by which a hundred persons were killed…

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The Oberon in a Storm—the Captain Washed Overboard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 June 1882 · page 4

One of the original China clipper ships, the Oberon, arrived at this porton Saturday night from London, and the voyage out appears to have been attended with a melancholy m[?]ident in the loss of Captain England, who was washed overboard during a…

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Terrible Cyclone

Evening News · Tuesday 27 June 1882 · page 2

LONDON, Jane 25.—A terrific hurricane is reported to have taken place at Emmetsburg, Iowa, in the United States. Whole streets were completely wrecked, and 100 of the inhabitants…

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Droughts and Floods. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 June 1882 · page 3

Sir,--In the review of Mr. Townsend's pamphlet bearing the above title, published in your issue of last Saturday, some error has crept into my calculations regarding the rate of speed at which the flood…

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Terrible Cyclone

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 10

LONDON, June 25.—A terrific hurricane is reported to have taken place af Emmetsburg, Iowa, in the United States. Whole streets were completely wrecked, and 100 of the inhabitants…

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Terrific Cyclone on Iowa

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 10

LONDON, June 25.—A terrific cyclone has visited Erametsburg, in Iowa, by which a hundred persons were killed…

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The Oberon in a Gale. Captain England Drowned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 36

The ship Oberon, from London, arrived, in harbour on Saturday, in command of T. E. Cowell, the chief officer. Mr. Cowell reports that the Oberon left Gravesend on March 17, and passed the Start Point on the 22nd. Light…

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The Oberon in a Storm—the Captain Washed Overboard

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 29

One of the original China clipper ships, the Oberon, arrived at this port on Saturday night from London, and the voyage oat appears to have been attended with a melancholy incident in the toss of Captain England, who was washed overboard during a…

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The Australlan Comn & Conntry Fournal Sydney, Saturday, July 15, 1882. Exorcising the Spirit of the Storm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 16

"To pour oil on the troubled waters " is a convenient item of stock phraseology which has been repeated on fitting and other occasions till it has become one of our most trite and baden eyed…

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Flooding of a Gold Mine. Eight Men Imprisoned in a Drive. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 5

At about 2 o'clock this morning the water from the old Prioneer claim, Linton, broke through into the drive of the Linton Park Company, and flooded the mine. It appears that a short time…

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Gale at Broughton Greek. Broughton Creek

Evening News · Thursday 27 July 1882 · page 2

A terrific storm of wind has been blowing with but intermission for the last two days. A great number of trees have been blown down, and the roof of a house was displaced anti carried away…

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Disastrous Storms in America Amd Loss of Life

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 July 1882 · page 7

Sioux City, June 25.—A report came to Sanburn Station, on the St. Paul and Milwaukee Road, 20 miles north-east of Hosper's, that Primgar was wrecked by a storm and six people injured. Primgar is an inland town, south-east of…

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The Recent Storms

Evening News · Monday 7 August 1882 · page 2

LONDON, August 4.—The majority of the fishing smacks which it was feared were lost daring the lats gales on the Scottish coast, are reported to be safe. Twenty have been lost, and the…

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The Storms on the Scottish Coast. London, Aug. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 August 1882 · page 5

The majority of the fishing smacks which it was feared were lost during the late gales on the Scottish coast, are reported to be safe. Twenty have been lost, and the fatalities are…

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