TERRIFIC STORMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 6

TERRIFIC STORMS

DAMAGE IN QUEENSLAND

HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS

FIREBALL EXPLODES

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Proas Assn,

(Received December 28, 2 p.m.)

BRISBANE, Dec. 28. Terrific storms yesterday caused extensive. damage, to property in scattered parts of Queensland. During a torrential, downpour at Ynndina, on the north coast, a fireball fell in a si}gav cane plantation. The explosion shook buildings in the. township, and the occupants of the plantation were affected by concussion and a dazzling white, light. At Roma, the roof of the power house collapsed, plunging the whole town in darkness.

Pieces of ice fell during a hail and wind storm at St. George, in Hie Maration. district, where a section of the State school buildings was wrecked and other buildings were unroofed. Water ovortlowed the street channels, flooding business premises. All streams in the Maranoa district are in flood. Thousands of trees in the Goondiwindi area were lorn up by tho roots or snapped off. Graziers’ homes and shearing sheds were unroofed and outbuildings razed by the, hurricane. Seven inches of rain fell in a few hours, and the township of Yclarbon was isolated in a sea of water.

Telegraph lines are down everywhere, and the mail train front Gooridnvindi to Brisbane was delayed by trees which had crashed across the line.

Air. Joseph Burke, a well-known pastoralist of the Warwick district, was drowned in attempting to cross a flooded stream on horseback.