WHIRLWIND IN CITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 10

WHIRLWIND IN CITY.

WELLINGTON STREET STRUCK. SEVERAL CHIMNEYS DOWN. WOMAN STRUCK BY BRICK. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON Friday A cyclonic storm of extraordinary violence struck Wellington a few minutes before 11 o'clock this morning. The whirlwind seemed to vent its full force in Rolleston Street, just opposite Murphy's brickworks. So terrific was the force of the wind that two chimneys on Mr. J. Hanson s residence were blown down. Mrs. Hanson, an elderly lady, was out in the yard at the time endeavouring in rescue some curtains off the line, but the whirlwind whisked them out of her hands and dpposited them in Wallace Street, a hundred yards away. At the same moment, a chimney came crashing down, and a straybrick struck Mrs. Hanson on the ankle. She was on the leeward side, of the house and the bulk of the bricks tumbled the opposite way. A chimney on Mr. McDonald s residence was also blown down. The disturbance subsided almost as suddenly as it had arisen, and only the demolished chimneys were left as evidences of the visitation.