CYCLONE SNAPS TELEGRAPH POLES.
HOUSES AND SHOPS BLOWN AWAY.
QUEENSLAND TOWN'S TERRIFYING- EXPERIENCES.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.)
(Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.)
jBRISBANE, Thursday, A terrific cyclone struck the town of Ilfracombe, unroofing practically every house. (Telegraph posts snapped off like stalks. A shop and two houses 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 still standing on a section was the only indication of where a butcher's shop stood before the gale. A thousand gallon tank was whirled into the air and crashed through a kitchen wall a quarter of a mile away. Another tank of similar size was discovered two miles away.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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