THE CYCLONE’S TRACK.
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. EXCITING INCIDENTS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, November 14. A cyclone at Whitecliffs produced a dust storm with lightning and wind. A waterspout fell, drenching the inside of scores of buildings owing to the roofs being torn off. Nearly every house was affected to some extent.
Among the damaged buildings were the Centennial Hall, the Stqte School, the Wesleyan Church. Convent, and a number of business plaes. A woman and a girl took refuge in the weighing room near the grandstand on the racecourse, when the stand collapsed, the wreckage falling all round. But both escaped.
A girl sheltered in a house which tin l gale shifted some distance, but the girl was unhurt. Broken Hill and Collar also report
damage
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 63, 14 November 1913, Page 5
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131THE CYCLONE’S TRACK. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 63, 14 November 1913, Page 5
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