TURNER RIVER.

The Advertiser, Adelaide, 28 March, 1912.

The Deputy Postmaster-General received

telegrams from Roebourne and Port 

Hedland this afternoon. Roebourne reported

that a telegraph line repairing party were

20 miles out and making slow progress, and

it was impossible to travel the line road

with horses, the country being very boggy.

A message from Port Hedland states that

a repairing party were on the south line,

which was believed to be badly damaged at

Turner River.

What is interesting to note is that the Turner River is adjacent to Cossack and Roebourne, 31 miles to the southwest of Balla Balla, within the most conservative estimation of the cyclone's diameter (90 miles). 

Port Hedland was not as is clear from the image - extract from the same newspaper report as follows:

"Scarcely any damage

was caused by the 

hurricane at Port Hedland."

courtesy Google Earth