CYCLONE STRIKES BOURKE
SALVATION BARRACKS LEVELLED AND HOTEL WRECKED.
PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Reoeived 5.33 p.m., Sept. 12. Sydney, Sept. 12. Early this morning a oyolone struok Bourke from the south-west, lasting a minute, acoompanied by lightning, and a waterspout which lasted five minutes.
A large amount of damage was done, The Salvation Army Barracks, a large building, was levelled, while the Oale* donian Hotel, a brick structure, was wrecked, the inmates having a narrow esoape.
Several other bnildings were badly damaged.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1859, 13 September 1906, Page 2
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80CYCLONE STRIKES BOURKE Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1859, 13 September 1906, Page 2
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