THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 64, 16 March 1903, Page 3

THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE.

Fm PMSSB AUOOUTIOH, Baißßi.Ni, March H. The Mayor has reoeived a telegram of sympathy with euffcrers by the cyclone from Mr Seddon. A selector nimed Hughes, accompanied by his wife, two' children, two white men, and two blacks, attempted to cross the Haughton river on Tuesday night but failed. Tha wholt paity' is missing. ' Tha rainfall on Monday in Townsvilla and the neighbourhood ranged bom 7\ to 10 inches

A OAPTAIN'fi BXPXRISNOSB. Brisbane, March 14. The captain of the Wodonga gives the following graphic description of his experiences at Townsville. The fall in the barometer forewarned him that a storm was coming en. His. ship was lyiog at the wharf between | two other veatelf, so that it was impossible for b» to get oat, and he therefore made all possible preparations. In addition to the usual complement of Manila hawsers, he made ten steel hawsers fast to the wharf. He had eeen many hurricanes, but nothing like this. The terrific sea broke right over the steamer, and the steel hawsers parted as if they were small ropes, while the Manilas were snapped like cotton.

The Wodonga, after just missing the Barco, cut down a small steamer, the Bobby Burns, to the water line, and then continued to drift towards the rocks. He put down a boat and the anchor, but the chain snapped when fifty fathoms were out. Luckily the ship headed on a mud bank, where she remained deeply embedded, and eventually escaped undamaged,