SECONDS OF TERROR.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 15

SECONDS OF TERROR.

An amazing .thing happened.;in London the other day. if it had hap' peiied on the sea, or even on the Thames estuary, it would have been a waterspout. , But it was in Piccadilly ana Great Maryborough ■ Street, and so 1 was just a whirlwincU'. '■'■■-. A warm wind from tlio south was overtaken by a cooler wind from the west, with the result that the warmer' air was forced violently upward, warm wind and cold wind spinning, round at a tremendous pace in the process--for. a terrible thirty seconds. The whirlwind took off the roofs of several buildings, blew iri scores of shop'windows, forced open tho doors of hotels and restaurants, where it overturned tables and chairs and everything on them. In ono club a chimneystack crashed through tho skylight and toppled down the stairs. Two 16-storie doorkeepers, were blown right through their doors. A two-hun-dredweight slab of concrete was blown. across, the : street in. a doctors-house. "Taxis were stopped arid driven backward, and a motor-car with all its brakes on was moved CO yards. Happily the streets were not crowded, and only two cases of injury were treated at the hospital. But. there was a tremendous downpour of rain.

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