FATAL GYCLONE
NIGHT OF TERROR
HOUSES FLA'ITENED OUT.
A vivid story of a night ot terror ,iu a 12J-iuilos.an-liour cyclone, experienced hv a handful of white people on one of the small islands in the Fijian group was told h\ Mrs. Trevor Jones, wile of the accountant of the C.S.R. Co., who has arrived in Sydney. There hiad been unceasing torrential downpours lor three days, she said, and a tidal wave n., swept four miles inland. Then the wind struck the island of Vanua Levu, said Mrs. Trevor Jones, and the frail huts of the natives were carried away.
The storm reached its height between 4 and 8 a.ill. Gusts of 129 miles an hour spread wide devastation. One by one, 50 houses in which white people were living were lifted into the air and carried some yards.
WRECKED \' LLDAGE. Some families moved from one house to another six times, as sue. eessive buildings were ilattened. Airs. Trover Jones spent some ot the terrible ordeal in a dug-out, and when tho storm had abated found that her only remaining possessions were the clothes she wore. All that remained of the village of Hibassa was about 10 buildings, and furniture and remnants of the houses .littered tho island.
'Five Indians who would not leave heir homes were killed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 3
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