"NIGHT OF HORROR"
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1IS0NERS AND WARDERS OVERWHELMED IN nado wrecks building
• — By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
CALCUTTA, Tuesday. nty-two warders, convicts, and « prisoners were killed and ■00 injured when the Mymengaol collapsed in a tornado. as a night of horror. ; feared that many are buried debris. Reseue parties worked !h]y &U night in the blinding darkness. the confusion panic-stricken Brs clambered over the ruins scaped into the jungle. Many e-captured in a round up by an force, but 220 are still at £oal is almost wrecked. Porof the brick walls and iron 5 were lifted bodily by the f orce wind and flung long distances. tornado, which travelled at a . 115 miles an hour, swept ?ncultural districts, leaving a : , ruin. The frail houses of the |ts were razed. k, Were killed and injured, buti extent of the 'casualties is Itornadoalso struck villages |
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 221, 12 May 1932, Page 5
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