A TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
A Heavy Downpour of Rain.
Groat Destruction by Huge Hailstones*
(Received January 13, at 12.30 a.m.)
Melbourne, January 12.
A cyclone struck a drover's camp near Hawkwood, and three horses wero swopt over a bank and killed.
The oloud then burst, and fivo inches of rain, aceompaniod by huge hailstones, fell in twenty minutes. Every tree for 20 miles around was stripped. Birds, rats, and other Braall animals were killed. Tho drover was knocked about and had a
narrow escape.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9641, 13 January 1899, Page 2
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83A TERRIFIC CYCLONE. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9641, 13 January 1899, Page 2
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