DISASTROUS STORM
ALL EUROPL SWEPT SEVERE DAMAGE CAUSED (Australian arid N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Remarkably warm late summer weather over the greater part of Europe has culminated in a series of terrilie thunder storms, in which three persons were killed by lightning in England. Great damage was dime throughout France, particularly in Brittany, where the famous holiday resorts of St. Malo, Dinard, and Dinan have been uupieeodenledly Hooded for the past two days. Raging tropical storms have torn up the streets and rendered the roads impassable, flooding many houses. Stretches of railway in Brittany have been washed away, and a train passing St. Brieuc was buried by a landslide. There are 120 persons homeless in St. Maio. Three people were washed down the river Ranee at Dinan, the .'bodies bein' recovered some miles below. Two deaths were, due to lightning. There is a heavy sea in the Mediterranean, and many wine barrels have been washed to sea from riverside stores. Two farm vvorkers were killed and three injured by lightning whilst sheltering under a tree in .Sussex, and a boy was killed and bis father paralysed in Oxfordshire.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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190DISASTROUS STORM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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