STORM VEHEMENCE
SYDNEY DELUGED TWO CHILDREN OVERWHELMED DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORMS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 14. A violent thunderstorm which visited Sydney today was responsible for great damage to gardens and building? and the loss of two lives. Three school boys sheltering in a drv-storm-water canal at Leichhardt were suddenly overwhelmed by a wall of storm-water which carried them half a mile. Two of the children, aged respectively ten and eight years, were drowne.l
The third was rescued in an uneou s< ions condition. A horse was killed by lightning, and poultry and birds wore killed by haii, which also smashed windows and motor eai screens by the score. The city was deluged. The lower portions of Hunter and George strecis were a swirling torrent of water inches deep.
ANOTHER YOUNG VICTIM
ALARMING FIRE-BALL
PUBLIC HALL WRECKED,
(Received 11.12 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day
It is revealed that another boy was drowned during yesterday’s storm, being swept down a storm-water channel at Alexandria. A ball of lire ran up the-facade of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows’ building in the city.
At Grafton, the public hall was shifted bodilv and wrecked.
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Northern Advocate, 15 November 1929, Page 5
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