AUSTRALIAN NEWS
TORNADO IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. PRECEDED BY VIOLENT ROAR. 5 ■■■ . . ADELAIDE, June 11. (Received June 11, at 9 p.m.) A tornado unparalleled in the history of South Australia swept across North Adelaide and Hackney to-day. It unroofed the blind asylum, uprooted big trees, partly wrecked five cottages and telegraph lines, and it carried outbuildings before it, but nobody was hurt. Eye-witnesses declare that it preceded by 1 a violent roar and swirling dust. Sheets of corrugated iron flew overhead and were deposited hundreds of yards away., . The damage is estimated at thousands of pounds. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 7
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