THUNDERSTORM
CAUSES TWO DEATHS
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 15
A violent thunderstorm in Sydney today was responsible for great damage to gardens and buildings and loss of two lives. Three schoolboys were sheltering in a dry stormwater channel at Leichhardt when they were suddenly overwhelmed by a wall of storm water which carried them half a mile. Two, aged ten and eight years, were drowned and a third was rescued in an unconscious condition.
A horse was killed by lightning and poultry and birds killed by hail which also'smashed windows and motor-car screens by the score.
The city was deluged, and the lower portions of Hunter and George Streets were swirling torrents, the water being inches deep.
FURTHER STORM FATALITY. (Received this da,v at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 15. It is revealed that another boy was drowned during yesterday’s storm, being swept down a stormwater channel at Alexandria. A ball of fire ran up the facade of Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows building in the city. At Grafton, the public hall was shifted bodily and wrecked.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1929, Page 5
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