VIOLENT GALE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 11, 24 October 1933, Page 5

VIOLENT GALE

GREAT DAMAGE IN VICTORIA.

TWO CASUALTIES IN COURTHOUSE TIMBER) TORN FROM OVER BENCH. LINER BREAKS ADRIFT. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A windstorm of exceptional violence caused damage in every suburb of Melbourne and in many country districts. Houses and other premises were unroofed, fences levelled, trees uprooted, and hoods torn from motor-cars. Tho gale also caused interruption, of the telegraphic services, and electric light wires were dragged to the ground by..flying roofs.. • Severe gusts carried moving cars across roads.- • -; '■ ' •'. " Several accidents are reported. The" residents' of "some suburbs say that.ey.en the, hp,u,se£., were shaken. . : ■' 'Wrenched from its. position by the'£ale a large piece" of timber ', crashed from the wall above the Judge's bench while Mr Justice McFarlanewas addressing the jury in the Criminal Court. It struck a • policeman on the head, and another man on the shoulder. The former was.: stunned. The mooring lines of the liner Ballarat, consisting of four manila .ropes and two steel hawsers, snapped, and the vessel drifted rapidly away from the pier, the gangway crashing against the side of the ship. The Ballarat was, later tied tip again. . The velocity of the wind reached 59 miles, an hour. •.; . .