GERMAN VALLEY SWEPT
DESTRUCTIVE WHIRLWII\It)
THREE KILLED, MANY HURT
(Times CnJHe.) (Received 20th Jane, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, 19th June.
"The Times" Banlin correspondent says that three persons were killed and eighty injured, and 130 houses wrecked by a whirlwind which swept the Else Valley, in Westphalia. Beams, scaffolding, roofs, and. fencing were blown into the air, amd sturdy trees uprooted. Tiles hurtling in the air caused most of the casualties. The tornado followed terrific thunderstorms. Lightning struck a big farm in. Meckletnbiirg, and set fire to a sheep shed, incinerating four hundred sheep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 13
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93GERMAN VALLEY SWEPT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 13
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