MAJOR CALAMITY FEARED
Cyclone In North-Western
Australia
PERTH, January 13.
Fears that a major calamity has occurred as a result of the cyclone in the north-west part of Western Australia are increasing.
Port Hfdland is entirely cut off from every form of communication. Torrential rains have fallen in this area and also in southern parte of the State. A violent storm, followed by destructive floods, caused damage estimated at £50.000 at Knlgoorlie and Boulder. Two persons are missing at Boulder and 2000 miners have been rendered temporarily unemployed at Knlgoorlie, whore the streets are awash. The Knlgoorlie express was held up by landslides and washawn,vs. At Marble Bar a nindly-rusliing creek has cut the town in halves.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 9
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117MAJOR CALAMITY FEARED Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 9
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