CYCLONE AT ADEN.
A fierce cyclone occurred at Aden on June 3, aijrl \yns the most • disastrous tljat hn.s ever .visited tljese regions since the British occupation in 1839. The wind destroyed yearly every bungalow in the place. The iron roof on the Government shed on the jectty was blown away. Great damage was done to the shipping at anchor in the port. Many barges were sunk and numbers of steam launches and the men-of-war Turquoise and Reindeer were driven by the force, of tho wind so hard that they both broke their moorings and narrowly escaped being wrecked. The Eastern telegraph lines are all broken.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1754, 4 July 1885, Page 8
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106CYCLONE AT ADEN. Otago Witness, Issue 1754, 4 July 1885, Page 8
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