Gales and Floods

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5223, 5 February 1913, Page 3

Gales and Floods

HEAVY LOSSES IN QUEENSLAND. Sydney, February 4. A whirlwind at Bathurst tore sheets of iron from the roof of the Oxford Hotel. Fowls were carried up and deposited in adjacent yards. A big Hood is reported from the Johnstone river, Queensland. Seventeen dead horses and two houses were seen floating down the stream. Probably cane and banana crops were heavily damaged. The cyclone stripped the roof of the Railway Hotel at Nvngan, and tore the posts out of the greater portion of a large balcony, the roof of which was deposited in the backyard, smashing the back baclony. No further damage to the town is reported. The schooner Dancing Wave is missing from Brisbane.