STORM IN SYDNEY
THREE BOYS DROWNED
CAUGHT BY FLOOD IN DRAINS
(Received loth November, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A violent thunderstorm in Sydney yesterday was responsible for great damage to gardens and buildings and the loss of two lives. Three schoolboys sheltering in a dry stormwater canal at Leiehhardt were suddenly overwhelmed by a wall.of stormwater, which carried them half a mile. Two, aged ten and eight years, were drowned. The third was rescued in an unconscious condition. A horse was killed'by lightning and poultry and birds were killed by nail, which also smashed windows and motor-car screens by the score. The city was deluged, .and in the lower portions of Hunter and George streets there was a swirling torrent of water inches deep. It is revealed that another boy was drowned during yesterday's storm, being swept down a stormwater channel at Alexandria A ball of fire ran up the facade of the M.U.1.0.0.F. buildingin the city during the cyclone. At and wrecked ° ™ SMfted
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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