TERRIFIC WIND
HOUSES BLOWN AWAY HAVOC IN QUEENSLAND TOWN TANK CARRIED TWO MILES (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.)
Brisbane, December 22.
A terrific cyclone struck the town of Ilfracombe, unroofing practically every house. Telegraph posts were snapped like stalks, while a shop and two houses were lifted bodily into the air and blown away. Dashing from one house, a woman with a child in her arms was forced to cling to a fence to prevent herself being carried away by the wind. Two chopping blocks were the only indication of where a butcher’s shop had stood before the gale. A 1000-gal-lon tank was whirled into the air and crashed through a kitchen wall a quarter of a mile away. Another tank of similar size was discovered two miles away.
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Southland Times, Issue 21896, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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128TERRIFIC WIND Southland Times, Issue 21896, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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