CYCLONE DISASTER
(Australitn & N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Most pitiful scenes occurred in the Negro section, where the flimsy frame houses were crushed like card-board boxes. The toll of killed and injured in this area are especially high. Entire sections of brick apartment buildings in better residential districts were pulled down, and structures uprooted. One residential street, noted for its stately elms, now has the appearance of a carelessly lumbered forest, the trees being snapped off and torn away by the wind.
'l’lie police state they have the greatest difficulty in handling the situation and keeping the sightseers out of the stricken areas, thousands having flocked to the scene of the disaster. The hotels are crowded with homeless victims.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1927, Page 2
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121CYCLONE DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1927, Page 2
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