MELBOURNE VISITATION
WINDSTORM CREATES HAVOC. MANY NARROW ESCAPES. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.35 a.m.) Melbourne, this day. A windstorm of exceptional violence caused damage in every suburb in Melbourne and many country districts. Houses and other premises were unroofed, fences levelled, trees uprooted, and hoods torn from motor car's. The gale also caused interruption of the telegraph services and electric light wires were dragged to the ground by flying roofs. Severe gusts carried moving cars across the roads and several accidents are reported. Residents in some of the suburbs say that even houses were shaken. Wrenched from its position by the gale, a large piece of timber crashed from the wall above the judge's bench while Mr. Justice MacFarlane was addressing the jury in the Criminal Court, and struck a policeman on the head and another man on the shoulder. The former was stunned.
The mooring lines of the liner Ballarat, consisting of four manilla ropes and two steel hawsers, snapped and the vessel drifted rapidly away from the pier, the gangway crashing against the side of the ship. The Ballarat later tied up to the wharf again. The velocity of the wind reached 59 miles an hour.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4461, 24 October 1933, Page 5
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