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LONDON, June 1.-Terrible floods have taken place in the United States, extending over a vast area of country., and resulting in enormous loss of life. Heavy and continuous rains occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible floods have taken place in the United States, extending over a vast area of country, and resulting in enormous loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As far as the metropolitan area and suburbs are concerned there is nothing of importance to record concerning the weather of the last two days. Saturday morning was cloudy and threatening, and the forenoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Would you grant me a small space in your columns for the purpose of discussing the above subject, which of late has been given such prominence in the daily press, from many of whose reports erroneous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →INFORMATION has been received by the Works Department that some very serious slips have taken place at the West Maitland embankment, which is designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MUSWELLBROOK, This Day.--The weather is very heavy. It is raining hard. Great fears are entertained of a second, flood…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terribly destructive floods are reported from America. A reservoir at Johnstown, near Pittsburg, State of Pennsylvania, burst, causing damage to the extent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SEVERAL correspondents hasten to assure us that the report mentioned by our Newcastle correspondent to the effect that a woman and two children were drowned at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WINDSOR, Saturday.--The water is still falling, and is now just washing the floor of the Windsor Bridge. The weather is dull, overcast and oppressive. It commenced raining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--The Hunter River at Maitland has new fallen some 20ft., and in a few days will be down to its old level. The greatest possible alarm, however, is felt at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Russell's foreboding that there was to be a repetition of the heavy rains of the early part of last week looked as if it were to be fulfilled on Saturday. Rain fell in showers during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Beeswing had an exceedingly rough time of in the recent heavy gale. She left Newcastle at 3 a.m. on the 26th ult., and bad no sooner got outside of Nobbys than the weather gave decided…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the unfortunate man Joseph Jennings expired in the Sydney Hospital. The deceased man, it will be remembered, was passing near the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During a severe gale on Sunday morning the Union Company's steamer Maitai, a small coastal boat ran on Richards' Rock, off Red Mercury Island, and sank in deep water 10 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Jane 3.-Later reports state that it is probable 25,000 persons were drowned by the bursting of the reservoir, and 800 burned at the subsequent fire at Johnstown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NYNGAN Monday.-The rain cleared off on Sunday afternoon. Fears of a flood were entertained, as the country surrounding Nyngan- Mullengudgerie, Nevertire, Cannonbar, and Mole…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In consequence of the recent heavy rains the Murray and Campaspi[?] Rivers are rising at Eohuca. At Donald the Richardson River is in flood. The waters have been greatly augmented through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is now conjectured by some that no less than 25,000 persons have been drowned in the floods that resulted from the terrific rain storms in the Pittsburgh district. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More particulars of the terrible calamity at Johnstown, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, show that the inundation is spreading rapidly all over the adjacent country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--West Maitland has not yet recovered from the effects of the recent floods, and the streets and houses are still in a most uncomfortable condition. Though…
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