HEAVY STORM IN QUEENSLAND
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE REPORTED
(Received February 24, 12.30 a.m.) (OKITBD PKBSS ASSOCIATION—OOFTRIOHT.)
BRISBANE/ February 23.
Several persons were injured, one seriously, and thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused to houses and crops by a terrific storm which.swept a narrow strip of the south coast district of Queensland on Saturday night. A train from Southport to Brisbane followed in the wake of the storm and took one and a half hours to go two miles. The passengers had to alight and assist the train crew to 'remove scores of heavy tree limbs from the track. At Loganlea, the railway station was reduced to matchwood and a house opposite wa3 carried bodily about 60 yards and deposited near the railway, where occupants werefound among the wreckage and taken to hospital. ' ■ ■ Brisbane city escaped the storm, but the outlying suburbs suffered. A number of churches were seriously damaged in various districts.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21715, 24 February 1936, Page 17
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