Disastrous Cyclone.
WIPED OUT BY THE WIND.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £IO,OOO.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.! Bi'isbane, April o. A cyclone practically wiped out the township of Cambooya. Great damage was done at Helidoxx. There was no loss of life, but churches and other buildings were demolished, and standing crops were flattened. A moderate estimate places the damage to station holders at £IO,OOO. The disturbance was confined to the two places named. TWO MEN KILLED. (Received 9 a.m.) Brisbane, April 6. Two deaths are now reported as the result of the cyclone. A man driving in a waggon was blown over and killed, and another was blown into a creek and drowned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 89, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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