TERRIFIC TORNADO IN QUEENSLAND
Shop and Two Houses Lifted Bodily by Gale; Others Unroofed. HUGE TANK CARRIED MILES. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received December 22, noon.) BRISBANE, December 22. A TERRIFIC TORNADO struck the town of Ilfracombe and unroofed practically every house. Telegraph posts were snapped off like stalks. A shop and two houses were lifted bodily into the air and blown away. Dashing from one house a woman, with a child in her arms, was forced to cling to a fence to prevent herself being carried away by the wind. Two chopping blocks are the only indication of where a butcher’s shop stood before the gale. A 1000-gallon tank was whirled into the air and crashed through a kitchen wall a quarter of a mile away. Another tank of similar size was discovered two miles away.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1
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