TERRIFIC CYCLONE
(Press Assn.-
BUILDINGS LIFTED BODILY AND HURLED INTO AIR TANE CARRIED TWO MILES
— By Telegraph — tio pyrlght)
Brisbane, Dec. 22. A terrific cyclone struck the town of Ilfracombe, unroofing practically every house. Telegraph posts snapped off like stalks. A shop and two houses were lifted hodily into the air and blown away. Dashing from one house a woman with a child in her arms was forced to cling to a fence to prevent herself from being carried away by the wind. Two chopping blocks are the only indication as to where a butchers' shop stoo'd before the gale. A thousand-gallon tank was whirled into the air and crashed through a kitchen wall a quarter of a mile away. Another tank of a similar size was discovered two miles away. >
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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131TERRIFIC CYCLONE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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