WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.
Received Monday, 11 p.m. - MELBOURNE, Sept. 6. The wind storm, which is the vvorst for 25 years, began about 3 a.m. and was still blowing at.62 tiL.p.h. in the eity at 11 a.m. City and suburban damage included Ihe blowing down of a 150 foot aerial niast tit 3XY liroadeasting station and the top 50 feet of the 3UZ niast. The gale damaged four shop buildings in Sydney Road, Brunswick, so badly that the first floors eollapsed. It knocked down dozens of house walls, fences, chimneys, and blew in hundreds of windows. Many people were endangered by fiying pieces of fencing and roofing. While a milkman was deliver-! ing milk his horse stood on a f'allen electric wire and was killed instantlv. Shijis waiting at anchorages for berths were foreed to steam seawards as the anehors would not hold. The wind was still strong this evening but is now moderating. Many reports of damage are still being received from all over the State. c
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1948, Page 5
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