STORMS IN SYDNEY

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1928, Page 5

STORMS IN SYDNEY

Life Boat Wrecked THREE LIVES LOST. SYDNEY. !’■ liriiaiy 11. Teriffie h.Mit of the pawl week culminated in a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied hv torrential rain and eyr lonic wind. At the height of tlm storm, a sliip’ boat conveying five men and a woman from the steamer Baldina, struck a squall in th ’ harbour, and capsized an I san k. The occupants of a launch in the vieinitv witnessed the accident, and picked up three men, but there was no traae of the other two men and the woman, and they are believed to be drowned. Th'' names of the missing arc:—J. O’Halloran. B. Lawrence, and Mrs Haley. The storm is described as one of the severest exp"rienccd at Sydney. lie' wind reached a velocity of 54 miles an hour. Chimneys and walls were blown down and buildings unroofed. At Drummoyne the electric cab! ‘ was blovm down. The police lin.l I" form a cordon round it protect pedes trians till repairs were effected. At Auburn a tree was struck by lightning, and eighteen workmen nearby were thrown tn tlm ground and .lazed. The storm only lasted a litll* over an horn-. Fifty five points of rain was recorded at the Weather Bureau, but many suburbs reported over an meh. On the northern foreshores or the harbour, jagged hail fell, storms being more than an inch thick. At Mental Bay many wi. were broken. similar storms ale reported tho country districts, where many was - aways on the railways occurred. GALES IN cKITAIN. LONDON. February IL Gales through hi' England lasted all night. A wind of a velocity oi HH miles pci hour was recorded at Liver pool, the highest ever registered in England, though it has previously been exceeded ir Ireland and Scotland. A h >e.s.w i. Birmingham was blown down. A man was killed in bed and his wife seriously injured. The damage to property is substanSNOW STORM IN SPAIN. MADRID, February 11. Heavy snowfalls and bitter cold in the province* of Zamora forced the* in habitants to shut themselves indoors and stoke up the fires in order to avoid freezing to death, and also to escape packs of wolves and wild boars which, emboldened by hunger, have entered the villages in search of food. The authorities are 1 organising drives tc stave off their invasion.