TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
TWO TOWNSHIPS WRECKED
'ONE HUNDRED PERSONS HOME- ' '.'iissss. .
This Morhingy 12.c10 o'clock
March 19. < A wire from Port Douglas, a seaport forty miles from Cairns, states that a terrific cyclone occurred on the 16th inst.
Practically every building in . the 'town was levelled..
Two fatalities ,are reported. One hundred persons are home'less. The-wire asks that relief be sent. ■
The township of Mossman was also devastated, . i
The telegraph service is disorganised, and details of the disaster a re. meagre.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10192, 20 March 1911, Page 5
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81TERRIFIC CYCLONE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10192, 20 March 1911, Page 5
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