LAST WEEK'S STORM.
A NIGHT OF TERROR AT 01 IRA. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHKISTCHUKCH, April 19. The storms of Friday and Saturday havo done a very great amount ofdanv.geat O-.ira. The condition on of some of those who were tendered homeless by Friday's store- vv'.-> pitiable. They were out in a dienehhsg rain, wivh occasional gusts of i.nil and snow, in a temperature .j.ot much above freezing point. It was a night of inky blackness. Their home 3 were torn asunder and hurled %n fragments in all directions j n some cjtses tremendous distances. Some tens of roofing, iron and timber have totally disappeared. The noise of the wrecking of homes was enough to strike terror to the bravest heart. The inmates of the houses were rudely awakened from their sleep with everything in total darkness, with no possibility of obtaining light, with inthing to guard them from the fury of tho elements or from the flying debris; and nothing could be done; but wait for daylight, which to . those stricken ones seemed never to be coming,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10023, 20 April 1910, Page 6
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177LAST WEEK'S STORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10023, 20 April 1910, Page 6
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