— _ — , — ^ — Received Sunday, 7.55 p.m. 3UELBOURNE, Feb. 15. Korong Vale, a town 011 tlie outskirtc of tho ALallee, was almost wretked lasl night hy an 80-mile-an-hour tornado Tlie residents were terror-.stricken dur ijtg the half-hour the storm was at it: height. Roofs were toru off and sheet.ot' corrugated iron were whirled 20( vards through the air. Hail shattered at least half the windows in tlie town. Trees were uprooted, gardens flattened and chimneys hlown down. Two and a half inches of rain t'ell in 20 minutes, flooding a wide area and drowning hun dreds of fowls. Electric-light wires wero hlown down and the town was lot'1 in darkness. Neighhouring towns had only a little rain.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1948, Page 5
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