Queensland Next Victim
Terrific Storm Takes Heavy Toll
DAMAGE RUNS INTO THOUSANDS OF POUNDS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 12.15 a.m. BRISBANE, Feb. 23.
Several persons were injured and one seriously, while thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to houses and crops by a terrific storm which swept a narrow strip of the south coast district of Queensland on Saturday night.
A train from Southport to Brisbane followed in the wake of the storm and 14 hours was occupied in travelling two miles.
Passengers fiad «o alight to assist the traiu crew in ltmoviag scores of heavy tree limbs from the track.
At Loganlea the railway station was reduced to match-wood amt a house opposite carried bodily about sixty yards and deposited near the railwav. where th<-■ occupants were found among ilio wreckage. They were taken ic hospital. Brisbane City escaped the storm but outlying suburbs suffered. A number of churches were seriously damaged in various districts.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 45, 24 February 1936, Page 6
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