DAMAGE BY WHIRLWIND
ONE MAN INJUBED
(Otrited Press Association.—Copyright.l (Received 20th June, 10 aun.)
MELBOURNE, This Day. A whirlwind struck Paxbury's sawmills at Warburton, lifting the whole roof and beams, weighing at least eight tons, and depositing it fifty yards away. An employee -was seriously injured. The electric light power station which supplies the township wag badly damaged. I The cyclone also caused tremendous damage when it swept over the Bungaroe district, near Ballarat. The cyclone was two to three hundred yards wide, and wrecked all before it. There were many 'narrow escapes, but only one person was injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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