DAMAGE BY GALE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 200, 10 June 1929, Page 5

DAMAGE BY GALE

STRONG WIND IN SYDNEY. COLD KILLS TWO OLD PEOPLE. BOY BURIED BY BRICK WALD. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Accompanied by bitterly cold weather, cyclonic winds reaching a velocity of 62 miles an hour spread havoc throughout the metropolis and along the coast. Two old-age pensioners died in different suburbs as a direct result of the extremely low temperature—the lowest for the year. A brick wall crumpled at Marrickville, burying a boy. He is likely to die.

In other suburbs the wind razed and broke trees. Hundreds of broken windows and stripped roofs were left in the trail of the gale, the roofs being blown to the sea. In a fishing boat off Colleroy, five men just struggled ashore with their lives.

Thundering seas pounded along the coast, and shipping was delayed. A large cargo steamer, with anchors dragging and the screw racing for half an hour, managed to avert being dashed on to the breakwater. At Port Kembla, when a punt collided with a launch in the harbour, eight people were thrillingly rescued. Many smaller craft dragged their moorings.—Australian Press Association.