VIOLENT STORM
* Death and Destruction at Melbourne YACHTS WRECKED (Received September 1&, 12.30 a.m.) Melbourne, September: 13. A violent sandstorm of a velocity of between 50 and 60 miles an hour swept Melbourne to-day, resulting in much damage. A boy, aged 10, and a woman aged 26, were killed at Belgrave Hill, a resort near the city, by a falling tree. Plate glass windows in several city stores were blown in. A boy, a man, and a horse and cart were blown through a shop window at Port Melbourne. Trees are down across the St. Kilda roads. There is much damage to fences in the suburbs. Two boats are missing. At Psrt Phillip Bay yachts were driven ashore and wrecked. ‘ The storm arose suddenly and blew with unabated violence all day. Many reports of damage to crops are now coming in from the country areils. The storm is still fierce to-night.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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151VIOLENT STORM Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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