HURRICANE IN THE PACIFIC.
DEVASTATION AT THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. SYDNEY, August 25. Details of the late hurricane at the Mai shall Islands sho w that seventyone lives were lost. Jaluit was almost completely . submerged. A tidal wave six feet high swept over the island,, leaving devastation in its track. At the Jaluit Company’s big jetty all floating plant was swept away.
There was great destruction of copra. The only houses left standing are the Governor’s and a portion of the mission station, where many natives took refuge.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 19
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91HURRICANE IN THE PACIFIC. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 19
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