MORE GREAT STORMS IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 11

MORE GREAT STORMS IN AUSTRALIA

Ordeal With Weather •DAMAGE IN QUEENSLAND BY.FLOODS \ Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Brisbane, December 28. Terrific storms yesterday caused extensive damage to property in scattered parts of Queensland. During a torrential downpour at Yandina, on the North Coast, a fireball fell in a sugar-cane plantation. The explosion shook buildings in the township, and the occupants of the plantation were affected by concussion and the dazzling white light. At Roma the roof of the power house collapsed, plunging the whole town info darkness. Pieces of ice fell during a hail and wind storm at St. George in the Maranoa district, where a section of the State school buildings was wrecked and other buildings unroofed. Water overflowed the street channels, flooding business premises. All streams in the Maranoa district are in flood. A thousand trees in the Goondiwindi area were torn up by the roots or snapped off. Graziers’ homes and shearing sheds were unroofed, aud outbuildings razed by the hurricane. Seven inches of rain fell in a few hours, and the township of Yelarbon is isolated in a sea of water. Telegraph lines are down everywhere, and the mail train from Goondiwindi to Brisbane was delayed by trees which had crashed across the line.

Joseph Burke, a well-known pas- - toralist of the Warwick district, was drowned in attempting to cross a flooded stream on horseback.