Ballarat East and some of the suburbs of the town were on Saturday visited by the most destructive inundations that have happened since the place has been settled. In years gone by there have been floods ...
Article : 3,012 wordsA correspondent, writing on Saturday, semis us the following:—To describe to you the indescribable effects of the flood caused by the rains of this day in Creswick is, ...
Article : 524 wordsThe flood was nowhere attended with such a disastrous result as at the claim of the Great Northern Junction Company. This claim is situated about three and a half miles out on the Creswick road, on a ...
Article : 1,948 wordsFrom noon till dark the scene in Bridge street was one of the most exciting of all the incidents of the day's disasters. From the Earl of Zetland hotel and Mr Anderson's boot store on the east, to the Buck's ...
Article : 1,938 wordsIn the township of Sebastopol the flood did very little damage. Some few houses and gardens along the creek at Redan were slightly damaged by the rush of water, but it was more towards Cambrian Hill that ...
Article : 586 wordsThe following description of the state of affairs at Climes was written on Sunday:—" I beg to send you a few particulars of the disastrous flood which took place here yesterday. We had a telegram that the ...
Article : 319 wordsThis morning there was a fen[?] food, water all over the road at the lower cud of [?]raser street. People are being carried from their slims in drays. The water still rising. ...
Article : 767 wordsBridge street and its vicinity, as may well be imagined, being the centre of the business population of Ballarat East, as well as the central point of the flood-current, sustained more damage than any other ...
Article : 2,947 wordsDuring the flood in Scott's parade and Wills street the residents of the houses there were for the most part compelled either to leave their homes or take refuge in positions as free from the water as were ...
Article : 681 wordsAll the way, for some miles down the creek, men and boys might be seen fishing for the " flotsam and jetsam" of the many wrecks caused by the destructive floods. Fences washed away, bridges, and pieces ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Mon 18 Oct 1869, Page 1
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