PHENOMENAL STORM.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18855, 27 January 1933, Page 7

PHENOMENAL STORM.

GREAT DAMAGE RESULTS SIXTEEN INCHES OF RAIN. BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY, Jan. 26. Storms continue to cause heavy damage in parts of the country. An extraordinary storm at Dorrigo was accompanied by torrential rain, deafening thunder and nerve-wrack-ing lightning. Three people were sent to hospital paralysed after being struck by lightning. Crops were washed out and hailstones penetrated the hides of cattle. Several houses and sheds were unroofed. Sixteen inches of rail fell at Eden, on the 'south coast of New South Wales, in as many hours during a violent storm. Business houses and homes were flooded. For miles around flood waters several feet deep rushed over the roads. Several bridges were swept away ■on the Princess Highway, the main road to Victoria, and traffic was cut off. The post office at Hetercote was flooded and the postmaster and his family were forced to run for safety.

LATER. EXTENDB TO MELBOURNE. STREETS SUBMERGED. LIGHTING SYSTEMS DISLOCATED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Jan. 27, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. A rainstorm burst over the city late yesterday. x . ~ The streets were flooded to a deptii of two feet in low-lying parts. Lightning dislocated the electric systems in half a dozen suburban areas. A FURTHER DOWNPOUR. HIGH TEMPERATURES. MORE THUNDER EXPECTED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Jan. 27, 10.9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 27; A further downpour drenched the metropolitan area last night. More "ain and thunderstorms are expected to-day. The temperature yesterday reached 94.1, humidity 80.0, at eight in the evening. RIVERS RISE RAPIDLY. SHEEP IN JEOPARDY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright, (Received Jan. 9, 10.15 a.m.) ■ BRISBANE, Jan. 27. The Ward and Lango Rivers are rising rapidlv. Sheep have been removed from all the river frontages and lowlying country. Rain commenced again last night.