MELBOURNE SWEPT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 14 September 1936, Page 5

MELBOURNE SWEPT

VIOLENT SANDSTORM BOY AND WOMAN KILLED PLATE GLASS WINDOWS BLOWN IN (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 12th September. A violent sandstorm of a velocity between 50 and 60 miles an hour, swept Melbourne to-day, resulting in much damage.

A boy aged 10 years, and a woman aged 26 years, were killed at Belgrave Hill, a resort near the city, by a falling tree. Plate glass windows in several city stores were blown in. A boy, a man, and a horse and cart were blown through a shop window at Port Melbourne. Trees are down across St. Kuda road, and there was much damage to fences in the suburbs. Two boats are missing, at Port Phillip Bay. Yachts were also driven ashore and wrecked. The storm arose suddenly and blew with unabated violence all day. Many reports of damage to crops are how coming in from the 1 country

areas. . . . , The storm was still fierce to-night. FURTHETDETAILS

CHILD TORN FROM MOTHER’S " - ' ARMS ■ ■ BLOWN 50 YARDS ACROSS, PADDOCK MANY PERSONS RESCUED IN . PORT PHILLIP BAY . MELBOURNE, This' Day. Two were killed and many injured in one of the worst storms Melbourne has experienced for years. A sixtyfour miles an hour gale smashed the new breakwater and sank fishing boats at Port Arlington, tore, roofs from the houses in city suburbs, uprooted trees and disconnected electrical services.

At Essenden a child aged 2f years was walking at bis mother’s side when a gust tore the baby from the mother’s, grasp and blew him fifty yards across a paddock. A woman and a boy were killed at Belgrave, when an uprooted tree crashed on them. Many: persons were rescued, from perilous positions in Port Phillip Bay. Four men were eight hours in a rowing boat, which was finally driven against the Frankton Pier. The' Queenscliff lifeboat, with a crew of nine men was out for six hours tryingi to rescue two men in a disabled launch, which had gone to the assistance of the four men in the rowing boat. Eventually, late last night the launch was blown ashore at Mornington. The lifeboat was headed back for Queenscliff, where it had not arrived at a.late hour, but no anxiety is felt.