TERRIFIC STORM
CALCUTTA RAVAGED. SO MILE AN HOUR GALE. WIDESPREAD HAVOC. (Received 13 a.m.) CALCUTTA, May IS. The severest storm in living memory visited Calcutta this evening. An 80-inile-an-hour ,gale caused heavy dam-
Telegraph and telephone line.s wore broken and trees uprooted, rvliile parts of the city were flooded. All vehicular traffic was interrupted. AValls of houses In the poorer parts collapsed, and 15 people were injured. One hundred thatched houses in the suburbs were blown away. Hawks and crows were dashed to death against trees and houses by the fury of the storm.
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Northern Advocate, 19 May 1934, Page 9
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94TERRIFIC STORM Northern Advocate, 19 May 1934, Page 9
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