DISASTROUS TORNADO.
[By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. (Per Press Association.) Perth, January 18. Particulars of the tornado at llooburn show that at least twenty-two lives were lost. Sovoral homestoads were wreckod, and several Chinamen wore also killed. The schooner Annie wub sunk, and a man named Euricksou, his wifo and child, and fourteen colourod mon were drowned. Most of tho pearl shell (loot woro driven ashore, and the Cossack and twelvo othur luggers aro missing. The oxtraordiuary amount of twenty nches os rain fell during tho storm.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11518, 19 January 1894, Page 2
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90DISASTROUS TORNADO. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11518, 19 January 1894, Page 2
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