SYDNEY CYCLONE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1928, Page 6

SYDNEY CYCLONE

ENORMOUS DAMAGE. AROUND SYDNEY. (Australian Pi css Association). (United Service). •SYDNEY, October 8. The damage resulting from yesterday’s cyclone in Sydney and its environs is estimated at not less than on million pounds sterling. Reports of destruction on a lesser scale are coming from all the centres between 1 Newcastle and Gaibo. Between two and three hundred men and women have! been idled by the paper mills fire'at Lane C ove which died out in a lurid blaze of greenishyellow’ flames late in the evening when it reached a building in which chlorine sulphuric acid and other chemicals were stored. With a series of brilliant exposions s ibis shed collapsed, and the firemen nearly found themselves tillable to see!, owing to the effect on their eyes of the liberated chlorine gas; The city fire engines were taken up the Parramatta. River oh punts and assisted,to fight a losing battle against the conflagration. Bush fires have occurred in many places. A number of dwellings were destroyed by fire or by the gale, while garages 'and slieds were levelled in all directions.

y ANOTHER BLAZE. BLOCK OF SHOPS LOST. SYDNEY, Oct. 8. A further fire occurred to-day, and destroyed a block of shops at tlie Shore suburb of Cremorne, The damage is estimated at-teh thousand sterling. • Tlie heat ( wave has continued to-day and this caused at; Cremorne a shortage of water, which handicapped the firemen. FLOODS FOLLOW GALES. SYDNEY, Oct. 8. In the Southern districts floods are reported to be imminent, as tlie rivers are/ rising. The settlers on the river flats around Albury have been warned, and their stock is being removed to liigli ground. The Goulburn River was fifteen feet above normal this morning at Savmour, and it is expected that a portion of the town will be submerged tonight. Thousands of rabbits and many snakes have been drowned.

MAN BLOWN AWAY ON ROOF. ' u SYDNEY, Oct. 8. A poultry farmer, named Williams, had a startling experience at the height of the storm at Rydahnere. He was endeavouring to secure the iron roof of a house when an abnormal gust lfted the whole roof, with the man riding on it, and carried it over another: shed rflierQ it crashed against a tree'. Williams was taken to the hospital with an injured arm and a dislocated shoulder.