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STORM AND GALES.
The high wind experienced in Gaw
ler on Monday night and Tuesday,
proved to be the outriders of a storm
which swept the country near to Sa
lisbury, thence to Murray Bridge, and
on to Victoria, and in a mile wide
strip left considerable damage behind.
In the Salisbury to Gawler district a
road off the main thoroughfare was
almost choked with the debris of
splintered and fallen telegraph poles
with their accompanying maze of over
50 steel wires. Along the railway Hue
itself the poles seemed to have been
lifted bodily out of the ground and
hurled into the adjoining paddock. At
other places the heavy steel beam
poles were bent like so much lead pip
ing. The damage will take at least a
week to repair. It is expected that
two telegraph gangs from Gawler will
co-operate with the Salisbury gang,
while one from Smithfield will also be
put on repairing the damage. Extra
men will also be despatched, so that
fully 40 men will, be employed on the
work of restitution. A new house
near Salisbury was unroofed, and the
walls show bad cracking. Reports com
ing in from other centres show that
great damage was done to the tele
graphic service and telephonic commu
nication will be affected until over the
week-end. Barmera, on the Murray;,
?was almost swept clear of dwellings.,
cubicles, etc.
. ? on ? s'. .
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