TERRIFIC CYCLONE
TWO QUEENSLAND TOWNS STRUCK COLOSSAL DAMAGE DONE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCI4TION.—COPYRIGHT.) ■ BRISBANE, 12th March. A cyclone partly demolished the township of Babinda. Houses were razed, trucks overturned, and communication cut. It is believed that one person wae killed and seventeen injured. (Received March 13, 9.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The cyclone completely] destroyed Babinda and almost demolished the town of Cairns. The damage done was colossal. All telegraphic communication with the north has been cut off. [Babinda is a small township on. Weinert'e Creek, in a district mainly devoted to sugar-growing, 36 miles from Cairns. Cairns is a seaport and municipal town, on Trinity Bay, 990 miles north-west of Brisbane. It .possesses one of the finest harbours in Queensland. It is the shipping port and centre of the banana, timber, sugar, and maize trade of Worth Queensland. The population of the town and district is 11,189.] ONE DEATH REPORTED. (Received March 13, noon.) BRISBANE, This Day. So far one death and seventeen hospital cases are reported from Babirida.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 62, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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169TERRIFIC CYCLONE Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 62, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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