A Terrific Gale.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 523, 25 October 1890, Page 2

A Terrific Gale.

A COUNTRY HOTEL WRECKED. Thrre wrb a terrific gale at Kuripapanga last week, and Mr McDonald’s hotel r istained damages to the ex'ent of nearly £5OO. The News sta’es The roof was shifted corn* pletely nff the main building, and than down came three more ih rnneys with a great cra«h, almost simu’taneouslv. The majority of ths windows in the hotel were, of conree, smashed to atoms, and the noise while this destruction was in progress, wub tsrriflo, to say the least of it. The balcony of the building was hurled ab?ut one hundred feet away, and snms parts of th« roof war* next dav found half a mile away from the location. The wind a<*ted with such force that beams belonging to the roof were driven three feet into tho ground, and some pieces of galvanised iron appeared as if they bad been hammered into one of the outside walls. A man named Munro hud just walked out of one of the doors, when a terrific gust came, A second after he had rushed in half the roof was blown off, and fell where he had been stun ling. Mr McDonald was away from home, but his wifa and ihce« daughters behaved with great coolness Wh*n it was safe to da so the inmates left th* hotel and spent he night in tbe washhouse. Th-j stables were blown to pfaces. The dismal scene in tho morning beggars description. Good sized trees were actually cut through by fiyng sheets of iron. A lot of poifltry were killed. Mr H. Reardon wqb the ooly traveller in tbe hotel at ihe time,