THE COOKTOWN CYCLONE.
Bbisuaxe, January 24. Many persons whose residences at Cooktown were destroyed lost cveryt'u'ng. Numbers of people were cut by llyins iron. The pilot of a Letch while attending t J the beacons at the time the slorni occurred lias not since been heard of. NARRATIVE OK AN EVEWITNESS. A DISTRESS INO Sl'!.'l IT. Received 2ilh, 12..'12 a.m. Brisbane, .lanuarv -I. An eve witness ~f ihc Oookiown di-> as-.cr state- it wa- a ilislivssing Mgli. In see houses lifleil inl-i tie- air a,;.l J scattered over Hie w.ites of (he liar / bour. . ■', Km- two hours do- wind, in cyclonic; sipialis. fdlldwiiig in rapid siiccc-sun. lore pa-t wit a a srrceeli a' ipiit- one hundiv,! nide.- an hour, taking with H, eveiythillg n„,vo:ll,'c. Sheds >.jf iron snared Irg'n in :!,'■ a"', till tliev lnokcl like playing ends. Karl'of :he signal slal ion was blown over the steamer Aramac. Five steel hawsers mooring thai vessel snapped like Unead. It I was heartrending to hc,n- Hie >i-,-ieks ~,' women a.,,1 ebildren as 11,,-ir homes groaned and swayed under the terrible and terrilie strain.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 25 January 1907, Page 3
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180THE COOKTOWN CYCLONE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 25 January 1907, Page 3
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