STORM DAMAGE.
QUEENSLAND TOWN WRECKED. ALMOST EVERY ROOF TORN OFF. BRISBANE, December 22. A terrific cyclone struck the town of Ilfracombe, unroofing practically every house. Telegraph posts were snapped off like stalks. 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 are the only indication of where a butcher’s shop stood before the gale. A thousand-gallon 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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Wairarapa Age, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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