Cyclone in Victory

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 19 November 1901, Page 4

Cyclone in Victory

A. deWiujftive cyclone Swept & Ii4WH? o fc« h « * '£& ' damage ini .IpssJhan the half b ] which: the hurrioaHe lasted. 4- reached a Yhlboity of seVeoty.JiHH| ii an ' hbnr, hot soon $ 6altn4d ' g terrific fallorhaihooCurred, g hailstones toeai&didhf' arit Inch Hw| tin diameter, abd others viiUmKm ' larger." ’ Thoasaftds-; oi?wjfci i lights were snjtaabed. ' ‘ were wefestripped r leAvea, gutters -were blocked, rfHre: r water flooded; many promises. . The total losses inr the city amlHfii £20,000. . IWMi A number of deaths are* 'rapotfeßßL, 3 dozens otpereons suffered injury, 6 j All Over the'Colony-the storm 1 Jfigfci'i t doing immense damage:- At Casdßßi the hailstones' weighed up to'BSft ddniesi |K 5 la the Castlemaine district it'i»Jßß'' j oiated that the damage amouaitHpi-' £50,000. ; Arelief fund has been dJE* Many peopje are rendered ;hotnele6i|^B|t' the wheat crop in'Some districts is tioally ruined. Bffi. - - Fitzgerald’s circus suffered badly 'cyclone. The tent was riddled 'll'' completely destroyed by hailstone Mil i a panic took place -among the animals. The devastation in the counttyHl' widespread. -Besides destruction toijgfl'' property, losses ot crops, stock atul are very severe. Bp Sydney. Nov6mh.M<Bp A’yiolefitT storm occurred in fyJrj; last night. It lasted for only minu tea, but did considerable damßPj'i especially in the northern subuSp' where a number of houses wer# B© roofed, trees uprooted, and much bjAradoue to orchards. The, wind attaiaeßL velocity of fifty miles an hour. -The damage by the storm to crops'ir/thte Kiverina district is raitßl to many farmers. The force of thovrJ|| at Benigan may be judged from Ihefß.that a thousand-gallon tank was ljH| ; bodily and carried a mile.*