ELECTRICAL STORM
GREAT DAMAGE IN WEST AUSTRALIA Perth, March 10. A fierce electrical storm swept the south-east agricultural districts. Extensive damage was caused to crops, houses, and fences, and a strip of country twenty miles long and five miles wide was laid bare. At Plngelly, a hundred-mile-an-hour gale swept the town, unroofing houses and razing fences and hundreds of trees. Nearly every home in the district was damaged. Many creeks overllowed their banks. At Narrabeen thirty chains of railway were washed away.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 11
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82ELECTRICAL STORM Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 11
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