CYCLONE IN WESTRAUA
SCHOONER BLOWN AGROUND. FIFTY PEOPLE SWIM ASHORE. MISSION STATION SUFFERS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (•Received 1 p.m.) PERTH, this day. A cyclone struck the coastal districts "v the vicinity of Broome, and caused considerable damage. The schooner Mena was blown aground in shallow water in Beagle Bay. Fifty-one people aboard the Mena managed to reach the shore safely after a hazardous swim of five hundred yards. All the roads are blocked by fallen trees. Many windmills are overturned. The Beagle Bay mission station suffered severely, but so far as is known nobody has been injured.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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