Destructive Cyclone
AT KALGOORLIE AND BOULDER BUILDINGS AND CROPS DAMAGED. (Received 10, 10.40 a.m.) Perth. Dec. 10. A cyclonic disturbance is reported at Kalgoorlie and Boulder. Extensive damage was done. Buildings were razed to the ground, fences carried away, and houses unroofed. Electric light wires were blown down and towns plunged into darkness. At Boulder, a theatre in which a number of youths were training for a boxing competition collapsed, uur.vmg them iu the debris. Five were sent to hospital, one of whom, 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 Kalgoorfie. a young woman was blown down an open shaft 70 feet dee]), but she was not seriously injured. , , , Torrential rain followed the cyclone, causing wash-aways and seriously interrupting railway communications. Great damage was also caused at Boddaliu. Carrabin and Wostomas where wheat crops were destrovod.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 215, 10 December 1925, Page 5
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