N.S.W. HAILSTORM
GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, February 12. A cyclonic storm at Murrurundi, 217 miles north of Sydney, unroofed nearly half of the houses in the town, and injured four people. Huge hailstones fell, they being as large as hen’s eggs, and they piled up inches deep. The plate glass windows in some of the shops were smashed. Several people were hurt by flying iron. The storm lasted only for a few minutes, but it left a path of devastation. It caused the utmost consternation. LATER. Further details show that at Murrurundi there were 124 windows in the local school broken by the storm. Motor-car hoods weer torn to shreds, while sheep were partly buried in the hail, and had to be dug out. Poultry were killed and gardens were ruined.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 February 1932, Page 5
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