HURRICANE AND HAIL STORM
NORTHERN BAVARIA’S EXPERIENCE. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE IN FEW MINUTES. [Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.] Berlin, August 6. An amazing hurricane and hailstorm of only five or ten minutes’ duration left parts of Northern Bavaria like a battle area. In dozens of villages hardly a roof or a window was. left. Whole areas of forest were-flatten-ned. For instance, in Erlanglen alone 2000 well-grown firs were snapped or rooted up. The grain harvest in many places was destroyed, orchards stripped, and railways strewn with fallen trees and telegraph poles. An express from Hamburg to Munich was actually brought to a standstill by the wind. Thirty windows of carriages were broken by hailstones as large as pigeon eggs. Several factory chimneys, including one 200 feet high, were blown down. A new assembly hall was demolished. Streets were so littered with debris that it was difficult for the fire brigade to reach distressed people.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 201, 8 August 1928, Page 6
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