STORM AT SAMOA
WORSE THAN THAT OF 1889. LOSS OF LIFE NOT YET ASCERTAINED. Per Press Association, WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. A most destructive hurricane occurred at Samoa on New Year’s Day. The extent of the loss of life through the falling of native huts and trees has not yet been fully ascertained. The small steamer Lady Roberts was thrown up on the inner reef and lies with four feet of water in hex en-gine-room, while the trading launch Siliafia was totally wrecked. There was wholesale destruction of breadfruit ti-ees. The storm was worse than the famous hurricane of 1889, when three. United States and three German warships xvere wrecked on that occasion and the British c. uiser Calliope steamed out to sea and escaped destruction.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 29, 4 January 1926, Page 8
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125STORM AT SAMOA Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 29, 4 January 1926, Page 8
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