LIKE A BATTLEFIELD
LITTER OF WRECKAGE
FEARS FOR OUTLYING AREAS
(Received I.larch 12, 11 a.m.)
DARWIN, This Day.
Not one building in Darwin escaped damage in the cyclone, and every tree for miles around has been denuded ri branch?s or uprooted. The town looks like a battlefield, with twisted iron, broken woodwork, and trees littering the streets. Fences were blown bodily on to roadways or hurled a hundred yards and wrapped like paper around telegraph poles. Not one windmill is left standing.
The terrors of the cyclone were rendered more alarming when the electric light failed.
An aboriginal was killed through being crushed in the wreckage of a house. - i
No word lias been received from the outlying mission stations. It is feared that the cyclone would have been more intense at Bathurst Island than at Darwin.
It is' unlikely that any news of the pearling fleet will be received for several days. The crews total 500.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 9
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