HEAVY DAMAGE BY CYCLONIC STORM.
QUEENSLAND GALE.
Boy Struck Dead by Flash
Of Lightning.
HAVOC BY FIREBALLS. United Press Association.—Copyiig-lit. (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. A boy was killed by lightning, a suburban church was smashed to matchwood and many houses were wrecked or severely damaged in a succession of violent storms which swept over the Brisbane district. The wind reached a velocity of 55 miles an hour. Fireballs were reported in some areas. George Rosenlund, aged six, was standing under a wireless aerial when a flash of lightning shattered the aerial and struck the boy dead, set fire to a house and threw a sewing machine 10 feet across a room.
At Belmont, four houses were lifted from their supports and the sleeping occupants were hurled from their beds. A number of other people were injured when the walls crashed.
At Salisbury, a fireball uprooted nearly 50 trees, levelled fencing and disorganised telephone lines. The cyclonic disturbance also caused heavy damage in the Rockhampton district.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 302, 21 December 1935, Page 9
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