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TERRIFIC CYCLONE IN QUEENSLAND TOWN OF ILFRACOMBE BADLY DAMAGED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, December 22. (Received December 22, at 10.30 a.ra.) A terrific cyclone struck the town of Ilfracombe, unroofing practically every house. Telegraph posts snapped off like stalks, and a shop and two houses wore lifted bodily into the air and blown away. Dashing from one house a woman with a child in her arms was forced to cling to a fence to prevent herself being carried away’ by the wind. Two chopping blocks were the only indication where a butcher’s shop had stood before the gale. A thousand gallon tank was whirled into the air and crashed through a kitchen wall aquarter of a mile away. Another tank of a similar size ’was discovered two miles away.
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Evening Star, Issue 21292, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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132HOUSES UNROOFED Evening Star, Issue 21292, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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