WEST AUSTRALIAN STORM
■ PEARLING CUTTERS WRECKED. Perth, February 22. Sixteen pearling cutters wore broken op Dy Saturday’s willy-willy. Four others’are missing. A tidal wave flooded all the houses in Denham township. The damage is estimated at ,£lO,OOO. The toll of life is not known, but the fate of three Malays and a native is uncertain. The .worst damage in the storm was done at Shark's Bay, where most of the pearling cutters were wrecked. There was also great damage done to small craft at Carnarvon. Torrential rain and a tidal wave combined made the Gascoyne River overflow, the floods causing considerable damage.—Press Asm.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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103WEST AUSTRALIAN STORM Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 128, 23 February 1921, Page 5
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