QUEENSLAND COAST
BATTERED BY STORM BRISBANE CITY ESCAPES Frew Association —By' Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, February 23. Several persons were ' injured, one seriously, and damage amounting to thousands of pounds was caused- to houses and crops by a terrific storm which swept a narrow strip of the south coast district of Queensland on Satur- , day night. A train from S«uthport to Brisbane followed in the wake of the storm and passengers had to alight and assist the train crew in removing scores of heavy tree limbs from the track. At Loganlea the railway station was reduced to matchwood and a house opposite was ■carried bodily about 60yds and' deposited near the railway, where the occupants were found among the wreckage and taken to hospital. Brisbane city escaped the storm, but the outlying suburbs suffered. A number of churches were seriously damaged in various districts.
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Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 9
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142QUEENSLAND COAST Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 9
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