CYCLONE IN VICTORIA DOES GREAT DAMAGE.
By Telegraph.—Frees A wn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 20. 10 30 a.m.) MELBOURNE. June 20. A whirlwind struck Parbury’s sawmills at Warburton, lifting the whole of the roof and beams, weighing eight tons, and depositing them fifty yards away. An employee was seriously injured. The electric light power station which supplies the township was badly damaged. The cyclone caused tremendous damage when it swept the Bungaree district, near Ballarat. The cyclone was two to three hundred yards wide and wrecked all before it. There were many narrow escapes, but only one person was injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18186, 20 June 1927, Page 8
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