VIOLENT SANDSTORM
SWEEPS OVER MELBOURNE BOY AND WOMAN KILLED HEAVY DAMAGE TO PROPERTY (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. Received Sept. 14, at 0.28 a.rn.) A violent sandstorm with a velocity of between 50 and 60 miles an hour swept Melbourne to-day, resulting in much damage. A boy, aged 10, and a woman, aged 26, were killed on Belgrave Hill, a resort near the city, by a falling tres. Plate glass windows in several city stores were blown in. A boy, a man, and a horse and cart were blown through a shop window at Port Melbourne Trees are down across the St Kilda road and much damage has been done to fences in the suburbs. Two boats are missing at Port Phillip Bay, and yachts were driven ashore and wrecked. The storm arose suddenly and blew with unabated violence all day. Many reports of damage to crops are now coming in from the country areas. The storm is still fierce to-night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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165VIOLENT SANDSTORM Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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