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Floods & storms, 1891

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Floods in Hayti. Eighty Lives Lost

Evening News · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 4

LONDON, August 18.-Heavy floods have occurred in Hayti, during which a bridge was washed away and 80 persons drowned…

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News by Cable. Floods in China. Great Loss of Life

Evening News · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 4

LONDON, August 18.-Disastrous floods have taken place in Foochow. Thousands of acres of ricefields are submerged. Houses and stock have been washed away,…

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Floods in Foochow. London, Aug.18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 7

Disastrous floods have taken place in Foochow. Ricefields covering an area of a thousand acres are submergod. Houses and stock havo been washod away, and…

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Floods in Hayti. Collapse of a Bridge.—eighty Lives Lost. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Aug.18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 7

Heavy floods have oceurred in Hayti. A bridge was suddenly washed away, and 80 persons who were standing on the bridge watohing the flood waters were drowned…

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Disastrous Floods. in China. London, August 18

The Australian Star · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 5

Disastrous floods have occurred in Foochow, in China, and it is reported that 80 persons have been drowned…

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Floods in Haiti. Eighty Persons Drowned. London, August 18

The Australian Star · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 6

News from Hayti gives particulars of disastrous floods that have been experienced. A large number of natives had sought refuge on a bridge at St. Marc, when the…

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Floods in China. Eighty Persons Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 August 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Disastrous floods have occurred at Foochow, in China, and 80 persons are reported to have been drowned…

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Nowra News. a New Steamer. A Turkey Storm. NOWRA

The Australian Star · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 6

A new acquisition to the shipping trade to the Shoalbavan River was made yesterday be the arrival of the steamer Karuah, the Property of the Homeward Bound G.M. Co.,…

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Disastrous Flood in the Tyrol

Evening News · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 4

LONDON, August 19.-Forty persons were drowned by the disastrous flood caused, by the cloud-burst at Kollmann, in the Austrian Tyrol…

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Disastrous Flood in Austrian Tyrol. London, Aug. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 5

A cloud burst over the village of Kollmann, in the Austrian Tyrol, inundating the place. Half the village was destroyed, and many of the inhabitants were…

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Floods in Austria. a Village Destroyed.--numerous Fatalities

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night. -- From Austria it is reported that a cloud burst yesterday over the villages of Kollman near the town of Botzen, in the Tyrol,…

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Floods in Hayti. Collapse of a Bridge--eighty Persons Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--News has been received of disastrous floods which have occurred in the Republic of Hayti, and of the destruction of a bridge, attended…

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Exterminating the Rabbit. a Successful Method. Flooding the Burrows. Albury

The Australian Star · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 5

The settlers in the Little River district have found a new and most effectual means of dealing with the rabbits on their holdings. They divert the water from the mountain creeks…

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The Mariposa in a Gale. Auckland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 417

The Mariposa arrived at 8.30 this morning, after a most tempestuous passage from Sydney. For two days the sun was invisible, and the exact position of the vessel, then in the vicinity of North…

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Disastrous Cyclone. Shipping Destroyed and Property Damaged. Loss of Sixty Lives

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--A disastrous cyclone has occurred at Martinique, a French colony, and one of the West Indian islands in the Windward Group…

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Destructive Storm in London

Evening News · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 4

LONDON, August 21.-Two houses collapsed at Kilburn. to-day during a heavy storm. Fortunately no lives were lost…

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Destructive Storm in England. London, Aug, 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 7

Two houses collapsed at Kilburn, England, during a heavy storm. No lives were lost…

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More Floods in the Tyrol

Evening News · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 6

LONDON, August 21.-Further floods have occurred in the Tyrol, causing great destruction to house and other property…

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Floods in the Tyrol. London, Aug. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 August 1891 · page 7

From the Tyrol a continuance of bad weather is reported, and further floods have been experienced, leading to great destruction of houses and other property…

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The Cyclone at Martinique. Loss of Over 350 Lives

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 August 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--From the Island of Martinique it is reported that as many as 350 persons lost their lives by the…

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