Second Edition TO-DAY'S STORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 89, 21 March 1916, Page 6

Second Edition TO- DAY'S STORM.

FURTHER DETAILS. r ' * 1 •;! ‘ j: • a Crowds of . interested visitors from all parts of the Borough, all day long flocked to the scene of the visitation, and gazed in wonder and 1 aw© at the destruction that had been wrought in so short a time. Indeed, the people are only now realising what a very serious matter,the cyclone might have have been to Stratford, ft was foi* tunate that no loss of life attended the event. MISCELLANEOUS. ITEMS. What’s in a Nam©?—A good deal when it is remembered that the cyclone started in “Aerial” Street ! A burly member of the Fire Brigade was in the Park at 6.15 a.m. wailing for some of his mates to roll up for practice, and when the cyclone strolled along and commenced operations it is alleged that the fire-bri-gader did the one-man coupling!; (with safety) event in record time! A calf was lifted ovlr a fence and deposited in other than his owner’s property. Pieces of galvanised iron from sbme of the buildings further north were picked up on the Warwick Road. One of the seats on the Fire Brigade ground in the Park was cut cleanlj in two while the other was found in the lake.

A southern resident, who had had experience of cyclones in Australia in his voung days, hung to a fencing post to escape being carried “skyhigh,” and used as a toy by the wind! The verandah of one house was discovered almost intact at the rear of the dwelling. A shed in Ariel Street has been posted’as “missing.” Innumerable chimneys rattled down to Mother Earth, and now there’s plenty of work for the bricklayer. They were mostly kitchen- ’ chimneys and the culinary arrangements lor the day were all awry. Grubb’s shed,- 24 x 10, will have to be practically rebuilt at the contractors’ expense. Another week would have seen its completion, and the termination, of their liability. Altogether the cost of repairs here will be about £SO.

Across the "river from King’s tlie track of the cyclone was south hy east, and its fury appears, to have been expended half-way between Cordelia Street and Swansea Road at the intersection of Warwick Hoad. Mr J. Yandle suffered to the extent of having to replace the top of his fowlhouse. Mr W. H. Bennett’s gate was lifted off its hinges and fell on top of an unfortunate inmate of the poult ly yard who was acting as matron to numerous chicks.

At Mr Smith’s residence on the corner of Cordelia and Celia Streets, the electric light wire broke and was carried by a piece of roofing iron into a clump of trees, cutting off branches and strewing them all over the place. The work of repairing the damage proceeded quietly and expeditiously. Electricians were sorting out the various electric light or telegraph connections; builders were pushing on jobs at replacing the iron on numeious roofs, trees were being cut up and removed from the pathways; hi Icks from the dismantled chimneys were being carefully stacked, and one-time distracted householders once again looked calpily upon life, arid wofe able to return -.a complaisant answer to tbe too persistent and enquiring Stranger who had strolled upon tbe scene.