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987 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 50
LONDON, June 9.—A group of cities on the east side of the Mississippi and north-east of St. Louis are from 10 to 18 feet under water. Seven hundred people spent the night on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Congaree River, South Carolina, is 13ft. above the dangerline and is sweeping seawards debris from the Piedmont districts. An enormous flood wave struck Pacolett and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reports have been received from the country districts of flooded rivers and delayed mails. The storm is now subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The alarm caused by the floods in the southern portion of the United States is diminishing. The Mississippi is falling, and the town of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday, Afternoon.--The Congaree River, in South Carolina, is now 13ft above the danger line. The flood waters are sweeping seaward,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cloud burst at Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a dam was swept away. The country was flooded. Cotton mills wore wrecked, and damage to property, is estimated at 2,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At Kempaey last week heavy rain caused big floods. It ls 10 years ago since the second flood of June 12, 1893. One thousand two hundred and thirty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The barque Dunloe, a well-known Australian trader, bad a narrow escape in a cyclone on the passage from Fremantle to Shanghai. The barque was forced to put into Anjer, Java, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Court of Marine Inquiry, consisting of Judge Backhouse, with Captains Simpson and Fawkes as assessors, had before its notice this morning the foundering of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The floods in the Mississippi are falling, and St. Louis is now considered safe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Court of Marino Inquiry, consisting of Judge Backhouse, with Captains Simpson and Fawkes as assessors, continued yesterday afternoon its investigation into the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Additional particulars were received upon the arrival of the island steamer Moresby at Sydney yesterday respecting the mishap to the German barque C. H. Watjen, which recently succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, June 11.—A torrent of water, 25ft deep and 100ft wide, burst through, the Illinois Central Railway embankment, near St. Louis, yesterday, and flooded the southern half of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A torrent of water, 25ft, deep and 100ft. wide, burst through the Illinois Central Railway embankment, near St. Louis, yesterday, and flooded the southern half of Eastern St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Later reports regarding the disastrous floods in America state that a torrent of water, 25[?] deep and 100ft. wide, burst through the [?] Central Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thursday.--As a result of the recent heavy rainfall and consequent floods, a torrent 25ft. deep and 100ft. wide burst through the central railway embankment at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thoroughly tried out by meeting gale after gale in her westward voyage, the steam yacht Emerald, first turbine-driven vessel ever to cross the Atlantic, arrived in New York on May 4…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At several stations along the south coast heavy falls of rain occurred during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. on Saturday. Showers were general over Riverina during the same period, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ARMIDALE, Saturday.--During a storm at Armidale yesterday afternoon several places suffered from the effects of lightning, the force of which has not been equalled in these parts for many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The German ship Schwarzenbek, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday from Port Blakely with a cargo of lumber, had a rough experience when off the Fiji Group, her decks being…
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