SAMOAN HURRICANE.
CALLIOPE INCIDENT RECALLED, WELLINGTON. January 4. A most destructive hurricane occurred at Samoa on New Year’s Day. The extent of the loss of life through falling native huts and trees has not yet been fully ascertained. The small steamer, Lady Roberts, was thrown up on the inner reef and lies there with four feet of water in her engine room.. The trading launch Siliafia was totally wrecked. There was a. wholesale destruction of breadfruit trees. The storm was worse than the famous hurricane of 1889 when three United States and three German warships were wrecked. On that occasion the British cruiser Calliope, steamed out to sea and escaped destruction.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1926, Page 3
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111SAMOAN HURRICANE. Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1926, Page 3
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