GREAT CALAMITY
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Association — By Eleciric Telegraph — Copyright J
TORNADO STR9KES CANADIAN CITY V
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED
((Received July 2, 11 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, July .'.. Retina City lias been involved n n great -catasl rophe. A ton:-;ulo stn.vk Mie rity, levelled .several hundred buildings, and killed fifty persons. Communication was cut off with the outer world. Relief trains with doctors and nurses were despatched from Winnipeg. The pronertv is roughly estimated at £1,000,000. Most of the people wero crushed in the ruins or their houses. Several automobile parties wer* lifted "bodily and hurled blocks distant.. Six grain (©levators were destroyed on the Canadian-Pacific tira^ks.
The Parliament Buildings. whiVi have just been completed in reinforced concrete, withstood the tornado's violence, but was 'badly shaken. The town generally is o. mass of ruins.
Boats wero whirled from the : - 'ver surface a.nd carried three-quarters '..f a nile distant. Fires followed the destruction of the houses, but the fire station escaped unscathed, and consequently the firemen were able to prevent the flames from spreaeling.
Pathetic scenes mark the recovery of the bodies. Distracted relatives are searching everywhere for lost ones. Railway cars were carried into the streets from the railway yards.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 3 July 1912, Page 5
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199GREAT CALAMITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 3 July 1912, Page 5
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