DESTRUCTIVE STORM
IN WEST AUSTRALIA DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND CROPS (United Pre*.? Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10th March, 11.213 a.m.) PERTH, This Day.
A fierce electrical .storm swept the south-east agricultural districts and unused extensive! damage to crops, houses, and fences.
A strip of country twenty miles long by live miles wide was laid bare at L'engelly. A hundred mile an hour gale swept the town unroofing houses, and lazing fences, and hundreds of trees. Nearly every home in the district suffered damage. .Many creeks wen? flooded by torrential rains and are running bank high. At Xarrabecn thirty chains of railway has been washed away.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 March 1930, Page 2
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