GREAT STORM IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 5

GREAT STORM IN AUSTRALIA

t WORST GALE FOR YEARS SHIPPING CASUALTIES FEARED ByTelesrapk~Pre6s Asßociation-CopsriElit Sydney, September 19. A strong south-easterly gale, with ' heavy rain, is interfering- with telegraphic communication. ) ° (Rec. September 19, 7.30 p.m.) 1 Sydney, September .10. ■ A heavy gale, with the wind 'blowing ! at a vdocity of seventy miles per hour, fnd terentialrain, havebeeuwwsince ■ early'this morning. Big seas are.rua- = ning, and shipping is There ' has been much damage to property and ! several business placesare he^h*ere. Windows have been blown >*-»**£■ 1 tents in the military and •°{ un }eer • ZrZL watb brought down wholesale dur- ' Infthe night Hundreds of men were iu a i O Sn E afGiebe walked into a tokenelfctriTcable and was. electrocuted. TelegraphTc communicaUon is disorganised. (Rec. September 19, 11.5 p.m.) Sydney, September 19. , The gale continues. It is He ■•*** J lost with all hands. THE FOUNDERED COASTAL STEAMER. (Rec. September 20, 1.35 a.m.) Sydney, September 19. The coastal steamer- which is supposed to hive foundered is the> Neioiig, not; the Heron Sle was sighted m a zff I*'*1 *'* S on off fte North Head, and ktei. > vTmissing. Search steamers wee d* I ratched. It is feared that the crew or 1 & have been lost-Press Assn.