AN ISLAND TORNADO.
EVERY ROUSE DOWN.
NO COCOANUTS FOR EIGHT YEAR.
[United Press Association.] (Received 1.15 p.m.) Suva, February 17. The Tofua, from Samoa, brings a
letter from Prothero, ;i trader, reporting a hurricane at N’ieufo from January 16th to 18th. it started at 4 o’clock ou the 16th. The hurricane, previously, had been from north-east to north-east to northwest, but this one came from the south, and the Island was devastated. The disturbance was more in the nature of a tornado than a hurricane. Every house was down, a fid also the coeoauuts, as if a lire had swept the island. It is estimated there will be no more coeoauuts for eight years. There is no information of any lives having been lost.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 8
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124AN ISLAND TORNADO. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 8
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