CYCLONIC STORM IN SYDNEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8070, 28 March 1906, Page 3

CYCLONIC STORM IN SYDNEY.

MAN KILLED AND OTHERS INJURED. Received 27, 6.15 p.m. Sydney, March 26. A cyclonic storm at North Sydney this afternoon unroofed and damaged nuny houses. A man named Toomey W.U killed by falling debris. A house ojllapi-ed at Crow's Nest, severely injuring a woman, Mrs Leslie, ami her two daughters.

A MOST DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. DETAILS OF ITS PROGRESS. Received 27, 11.5 p.m. Sydney-, March 27. Particulars of tho cyclonic storm in Sydney shows that the wind gathered force in a gully near St.Leonards, and he appalling noise of its approach threw the residents into panic. The tornado pursued ajmost tortuous path. It picked up Leslie's fire-roomed cottage like a sheet of paper, lifted it over a fence into the street, with the occupants inside. Mrs .Leslie and her daughter were seriously injured. Trees snapped off at the butts, aud the air was filled with flying iron, tiui)er and tiles.

Wooden house after wooden house went to pieces like structures of cards. The floor of a room was lifted on its edge and bowled like a giant hoop for some distance.

A house occupiod by as old couple named Twomcy was turned over completely,'and the old man killed outright, his aifc escaping serious injury. Fifteen families are homeless. The fallowing were taken to the hospital badly injured: Leslies (3), Mrs Moss, Mrs Gordon, Miss Long, and Cecil Davis'. Many others were treated for superficial injuries. The tornado carved out a track a few chains wide and then darted down posvards the harbor, carrying out the end of the floating bath at Lavender Bay» It force was then spent.