TRAINS DERAILED IN AUSTRALIAN STORM.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received January 1, 7 p.m.) PERTH, January 1. Rains caused serious washaways on the trans-continental railway-. An engine with a tender, mail van and two second-class coaches on the west-bound express were derailed sixty-three miles eastward of Rawinna. No one was injured, but the rolling stock was considerably damaged. News regarding the floods and the condition of the country is not obtainable, owing to a breakdown of the railway telegraph service. A willy-willy or a cyclonic storm struck Marble Bar on Saturday night, damaging the police station, post office, courthouse and residency. The wind reached a velocity of eighty miles an hojir. The gale continued on Monday in the Nullagine district, with a rainfall reaching nearly six inches in some places. The telegraphs to Wyndham are dislocated, messages having to go via i\delaide and Darwin, with radio filling the gap between the latter town and Wyndham. A wheat train was derailed 231 miles from Perth near Moulynning. Sixteen trucks were smashed to atoms. The train crew escaped unhurt.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19267, 2 January 1931, Page 1
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