AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8106, 28 March 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A CYCLONIC STORM

Received March 27. 6.15 p.m. SYDNEY, March 27. A cyclonic storm at.North Sydney this afternoon unroofed and damaged mauy houses. A man named Twomey was killed by the failing debris. A house collapsed at Crows' Nest, severely injuring a Mrs Leslie and her two daughters.

LATER PARTICULARS

COTTAGE PICKED UP LIKE A SHEET OF PAPER.

FIFTEEN FAMILIES HOMELESS

SEVERAL 'PERSONS BADLY INJURED.

Reoeived March 27, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, March 26. The wind 'gathered force in a gully near St. Leonards with appalling noise. Its approach threw the residents into a pauic. The tornado pursued a most tortuous path, and picked up Loslie'a Ave roomed cottage like a sheet of paper. It lifted it over a fence into the street, while the occupants were inside. Mrs Leslie and her daughters were seriously injured. Trees snapped off at the butts, and the air was filled by with flying iron, tiles and timber belonging to a wooden house. Afterwards the wooden house went to pieces like a structure of cards. The floor of a room was lifted on its edge and bowled along like a giant hoop for some distance. The house occupied by an old couple, named Tw.omey, was turned over completely, and the old man killed outright, his wife escaping with serious injury. Fifteen families are homeless.

Tbe following bave been taken to the hospital badly injured :—Leslie (three)* Mrs Moss, Mrs Gordon, j Miss Long, and Cecil Davis. Many others have been treated for super flcial injuries. The tornado carved out a track a few ohains wide, then darted down towards the harbour, carrying out the end of a floating bath at Laven-1 der Bay. The force of the tornado was then spent.