TWO PERSONS KILLED
STORM IN QUEENSLAND
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
MANY SHOPS FLOODED
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Dec. 21, noon.) BRISBANE, Dec. 21. Two persons are dead as a result of a terrific storm which swept southern Queensland last night. Enormous hailstones fell and a 7o-miles-an-hour hurricane, and vivid lightning, caused heavy damage in Charleville and Brisbane.
Over 2in. of • rain fell in the city in 25 minutes. Practically every shop in one street was ■ flooded. Lightning plunged the city into darkness for a quarter of an hour. The roof of the Hotel Daniel collapsed, and four floors were flooded. Numerous iiouses in the suburbs also, were unroofed. The broadcasting station 4BC was flooded and put out of action for the night. A fireball struck a big chimney stack at New Farm, and the bricks crashed through the roof and shattered a table at which a man and his wife were dining, but they escaped injury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 5
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