SEVERE STORM
HEAVY DAMAGE DONE IN CALCUTTA. PARTS OF CITY FLOODED. .. Unite! Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, May 18. The severest storm in living memory visited Calcutta this evening, an eighty-mile-an-hour gale causing heavy damage. Telegraph and telephone lines were broken, trees uprooted and parts of the city flooded. All vehicular traffic was interrupted, and the walls of houses in the poorer parts collapsed. Fifteen were injured when 100 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19804, 21 May 1934, Page 14
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94SEVERE STORM Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19804, 21 May 1934, Page 14
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