THE WODONGA’S ESCAPE.
THRILLING EXPERIENCE OF TOWNSVILLE HURRICANE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 8.33 p.m., March 15. Brisbane, March 14.
The captain of the Wodonga gives a graphic description of his experiences of the Townsville cyclone. The fall of the barometer forewarned a storm, He was lying at the wharf between two other vessels. It was impossible to get out. He made all possible preparations. In addition to the usual complement of manila hawsers he made ten steel hawsers fast to the wharf. He had seen many hurricanes, but nothing like this. The wind was terrific. The sea broko right over the steamer. The steel hawsers parted as if they were smuil ropes, and the manilaa like cotton.
The Wodonga, after just missing the Barcoo, cut down the Binall steamer Bobby Burns to the water line, and then continued to drift towards the rocks. They put down the bow anchor. The chain snapped when fifty fathoms out. Luckily the steamer headed on to a mud bank, where Bhe remained deeply embedded, and eventually escaped undamaged.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 841, 16 March 1903, Page 2
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