The Recent Storm at Broken Hill.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 144, 17 December 1895, Page 3

The Recent Storm at Broken Hill.

'M-u'^.--) ~ ; Sydney, December 4. H ~ ;r£- terrible storm i burst wer Broken S on Sanaiiy^ nigbE JfcOasfe^ Ignite l #«i?"^ I T! | !! t y htth^rain "■■'^id^^T^^Vii^bß^:'^fS^ was most brilliant, and peal after peal of thunder ft^owed in quick succession. "^ ■> Great sheet»«f iiwen and timber were flying about in all directions. Buildings Were overturned, and in some instances ;'" ?^'iy|B^;-l»paUy-:fi^'.*he.;^tonna and earned some distance away. Boots were f blown oftyand %ik|te «Uwhea in. The ho^tsi had a big chimney blown down, v-ri induthe Catbplic ; <3»urch had a portion otiteroof taken away. In Oxide-street verandahs , wrenched off sundry buUdingSi and some stables were quite - dembKshed. Pell's Royjal Horse Bazaar lately used as a storehouse for furniture, was completely wrecked. A blacksmith's ; -^ shop in Beryl-staeet -was ruined, the oc;i?:::cvmiab: barely, escaping injury. The ?'* bnuding formerly used by the Market Cb-operaiave Society was H ifiockedrio preces, and Hendy's frnit -; r'^ shop was wrecked. - The Brewers' Arms Hotel also sustained serious damage, «% ?^h^whole of the roof being blown oft, ■; and portions of the chimney fell into the h«tf.i The mines, too, did not escape un--X scathed. A number of electric light and ;^ ''telegraph poles in various places were blown down, and some iron telegraph poles were doubled up. Mr William M'Leish, accountant, occupying a small tenement in Blonde \i Blfcreet, had his leg broken. "The wind V carried the bouse into the middle of the rc*d, landing M'Leish among the debris. ',