THE WANGANUI GALE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3372, 29 December 1919, Page 2

THE WANGANU I GALE.

RESIDENTS NARROVV ESCAPE‘

' A TERRIFYING 'l«:x;Pn:mENcE. A narrow escape from deatla during gale on Siiil-."iLly night. was ('.‘X})(‘l'lC'llC()(l by NJ‘ Dlilltall ‘Ul'qllui't,. one of \Vung;_l.lui's (.'lc'ia-~;-2‘ inll:lbi‘.ant.~<. He has attained the age of 80 years, and while on his way to his son's residence he caught the full force of the cyclone, auvt. haul '3. terrifying experience. » "Just -as I got to the corner of In-to-day, "a terrific tliounderstorm broke today, “a terrific thundcrstor mbroke.. The lightning‘ was appalling \'l\’ld. and the voice of the tllunde_l' deafening. When the noise ‘was at its height a tree fell Cl"£tShll)g apparently right on top of me. A limb from .a tree struck me on the shoulder and knocked me down. I however, was not the only thing struck by the tree, as itfcraslled right on to a lamp-post, and shivered the lamp and post to matchwood. “What with the pealing of. the} thunder, the smashing -cf timbers, thes splintering of broken glass, and the fallen tree all round ‘III6, you can imagine that I did not know for a while what had happened.” At last 4 man who had ‘been sheltering from the cyclone in ta. doorway across the street came over and assisted Mr Urquart to extricate ‘himself from the ‘debris. '