SERIOUS DAMAGE
CYCLONE AND WHIRLWIND
MANY NARROW ESCAPES
lEleu. Tel Copyright—United Press Assn.i (Received June 20, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 20.
A whirlwind struck Parbury’s sawmills at Warburton, lifting -the .whole roof and beams weighing eight tons end depositing them f>o yards away. An employee was seriously injured.
The, electric light pow’er station which supplies the township was badly damaged. A' cyclone caused tremendous damage when it swept the Bungarec district near Ballaiat. The cyclone was 200 to 300 yards wide, and wrecked all before if. There were many narrow escapes, but only one person was injured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 7
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97SERIOUS DAMAGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 7
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