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A SEVERE GALE.

Heavy Damage At Greymouth.

A tornado struck a portion of the town of Groymouth on Saturday night. The wind, which blew with a force estimated at 70 to 80 miles an hour, came from the north-west, and the area affected is about two to three chains in width. The hurricane carried all before it, blowing over fences, uprooting trees, bringing down brick chimneys, and breaking windows, but no ono was injured. At the Trotting Club's course the grand stand was completely unroofed and the iron scattered all ovor the course. In its flight it broke paling fences and the rails of the fenco round the course. A sheet of iron from the roof was carried a quarter of a mile. Damage was done to some residences, which were rendered temporarily uninhabitable. At the Suburban Hotol the roof and posts of a verandah were lifted bodily and doposited behind the building. The same thing happened to the verandahs of two residences further up the street, three houses between being uninjured. The damage to the Trotting Club's property is estimated at from two to threo hundred pounds. The other damage it is impossible as yet to estimate, but tho total will probably bo under £IOOO. Unconfiimed reports state that the Presbyterian church at Brunner has been demolished and that a church being erected at Blackball was shifted off tho piles. Railway communication to Otira is interrupted owing to a washout. It is roported that a storo theio has been demolished and tho co-operative workers' tents wreckod.

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Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 5

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A SEVERE GALE. Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 5

A SEVERE GALE. Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 5