MELBOURNE STORM
Two Killed, Many Injured BABY BLOWN 50 YARDS ACROSS PADDOCK Melbourne, September 14. Two persons were killed and many injured yesterday in one of the worst storms Melbourne has experienced for years. A gale of 64 miles an hour smashed the new breakwater and sank fishingboats at Porta rlington, tore roofs from houses in the city and suburbs, uprooted trees, and disconnected electrical services. At Essenden a child aged 2J years was walking at his mother’s side when a gust tore the baby from the mother's grasp and blew him 50 yards across a paddock. A woman and a boy were killed at Belgrave Hill, when an uprooted tree crashed down on them.
Many persons were rescued from perilous- positlonfe in Port Phillip Bay. Four men were for eight hours in a rowing-boat which finally was driven against Frankston Pier. The Queenscliff lifeboat, with a crew of nine men, was out for six hours trying to rescue two men in a disabled launch which Had gone to the assistance of those in the rowidg-boat. Eventually late last night the launch was blown ashore at Mornington, The lifeboat headed back for Queenscliffi, where jt had not arrived at a late hour, but no anxiety is felt.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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207MELBOURNE STORM Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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