A TORNADO

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 5

A TORNADO

MUCH DAMAGE DONE VAGARIES OF VISITATION. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) BRISBANE, 'September 23. A tornado- tore across the outskirts of Gympie, leaving a trial of chaotic ruin. The Roman Catholic Ohuroh was lifted ten feet into tho air, and crashed in a mass of wreckage. Railway trucks weighing about twenty torus were swept off the rails. Petrol drums containing fifty gallons, wore carried forty yards away by the wind. In the One 'Milo district several families managed to hurry from their 'homes as they wore torn, down like cardboard. The road throughout the district is strewn with uprooted trees, v. ; . Hundreds of sheets of galvanized iron were carried for,'-miles. The strange vagaries of the storm were demonstrated by the fact that while houses in one side of a street wer© demolished, those on the other side were unscathed. Amazingly, no one was injured, A heavy lidlstom, following the tornado, has ruined tho crops,

SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE, (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, September 23. The damage to houses, shops, etc. is estimated at ten thousand pounds. All telephone and electric light wires are broken and knotted. Two houses at Carlton Hill were lifted bodily and deposited two chains away. The occupants of one suffered a severe shook. A number have been treated for injuries, suffered from flying debris.