TWO LIVES LOST IN STORM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 5

TWO LIVES LOST IN STORM

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Man Beeomes Entangled in Live Wire OTHER SWEPT AWAY

(By Telegiapi

(iseceivea 17, la.io p.m.) . SYDNEY, March 17. Two lives have been lost in the eyclonic storm which lashed the eastern half of New South Wales in the past two days. One man was electrocuted when he became entangled with a live wire which was blown down; another man was drowned as he was swept from a horse when attempting to cross a flooded creek. A landslide on the Moss Vale, Unan- ' dirra, branch line has blocked rail traffic between the sonth coast and the sonthern tablelands. The fiood danger on the Clarence xiver has become acufe and hundreds of cattle have been drowned. Torrential Tain is still drenching the greater part of New Sonth Wales, causing the northern, inland and coastal rivers to rise xnenacingly. Shipping and aerial services are disorganised, and several coastal vessels due at Sydney to-day'did not arrive and have not reported. The whole coastline is lashed by inountainous seas and visibility is poor. The Glenfield military camp* was washed out overnight, and wind levelled every tent. Parts of the Sydney catchment area registered six inches of rain in 24 honrs. Several" northern coastal towns are already isolated, the roads being under water.