DAMAGE BY STORM
ANQ RAIN. EARTHQUAKE CAUSES PANIC. Press Association— < Copyright. (Received ID. 10 a.m.) SYDNEY. Tins Day. A severe wind and thunderstorm was experienced in the Riverina district during I lie week-end. For, the second time within a lew weeks, the township of flenly was Hooded. I'wo {inches of min fell in half an hour* and considerable d/iinage was done to roads. At Yorong Creek, a tornado unroofed several husine.T houses and tho telephone lines were blown down. At Ur.a,nquitnty roofs were lifted off sheds, trees' were uprooted, and many fallowed paddocks were badly scoured. Fruit frees suffered much damage. A cloudburst near . Corobimilla caused a, washaway of Tour to live chains of milway- An eai tli(,-iiake at Wellington caused the people to rush into the streets, windows were broken and plasl/jr shaken from the ceilingfj.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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