TRAIL OF RUIN
IN WAKE OF S. AFRICAN STORM
United Press Association—By EJe 'trie Telegraph—Copyright.)
CAPETOWN, November 29
A Bloemfontein message states a terrific hurricane struck parts of the b'outh-Eastern Orange Free State. Roofs of farm houses were carried a'.vny, trees uprooted, and stock thrown down.
It was followed by a destructive hailstorm, destroying wheat crops and all fruit. The inhabitants were left in darkness for thirty minutes, and were 'terrified.
At Smithfield the roof of a native isolation hospital was blown seven hundred yards away. Trees of all sizes and out houses wore razed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1933, Page 2
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