VIOLENT STORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1894, 31 October 1913, Page 7

VIOLENT STORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

DAMAGE AND FATALITIES. By T«legraph—Pre«j AceocUtlon—OopjrlsM . Sydney, October 30. Heavy rain, accompanied by a wind storm, was experienced at Ulmarra. Many trees wero uprooted. A man standing near a tree which was struck by lightning was knocked down and temporarily paralysed on ono side. A motor-launch conveying a largo quantity of stock for a storo sank. The two occupants, after a struggle, reached tho river bank. Heavy rain fell at Wagga, doing damage to orchards and crops. Tho mail coach from Kyoglo to Casino was turned over by the gale. There were 110 passengers aboard. A man known as Henry Stannard, aged thirty-two years, a _ farm hana, was killed by lightning while sitting on a. low branch of a tree. At an inquest the evidence showed that h© was an immigrant, whose real name was Jamea Cooper. Brisbane, October SO. During a storm at Boompa, North Queensland, Reginald Bates a youth, was killed by lightning. , FLOODS AND LOSS OF LIFE. FIFTY-FOUR PEOPLE DROWNED. . San Salvador, Ootober 29. Floods followed a heavy downpour of rain, and drowned fifty-four persons, also partially destroying 'the village of Vera Cruz, near Viciente _ All p low-lying country is inundated. T.'ao loss of property is heavy. THE WELSH TORNADO. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £60,000. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. ' London, October 29. The South Wales storm lasted only three minutes, but tho damage caused is estimated at £50,000. Tho tornado cut like a eoythe a track two hundred .yards wide through tho woods.