DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 December 1925, Page 9

DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE

EXTRA EDITION.

BUILDINGS DESTROYED. OTHER DAMAGE DONE A BOY SERIOUSLY HURT'. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. Received Dec. 10, noon. PERTH, Dec. 10. Cyclonic disturbances lnvve been reported from Kalgoorlie and Boulder, where extensive, damage was done. Buildings were razed to the ground, fences carried away, houses unroofed, electric light wires blown down, and the towns plunged into darkness. At Boulder the theatre, in which a number of youths were* training lor a boxing competition, collapsed, burying them in the debris, Five were .later sent to hospital, and one, Keith Edwards, is in a critical condition. The storm occurred on Tuesday night, but as the telegraph lines were blown down, the towns have been isolated since and communication has just been restored. At Kalgoorlie a young woman was blown down an open shaft seventy feet deep, but was not seriously injured. Torrential rain followed the cyclone, causing wash aw ays, which are seriously interrupting railway communications. Great damage was also caused at Boddalin, Carrabin, and Westonia, where the wheat crops were destroyed.