TWENTY-FIVE KILLED.
THE LOUISIANA HURRICANE. NEW YORK, August 29. The latest tally at New Orleans of the Louisiana hurricane is that 25 lives were lost, while several people are yet missing. Damage to property is estimated at between one and two millions sterling. An appeal for help has been broadbroadcasted by the American Red Cross Society, and the War Department has authorised the dispatch of Government blankets and cots from New Orleans to where they are most needed.—(A. and N.Z.) MORE DEAD DISCOVERED. (Received 11 a.ni.) NEW ORLEANS, August 29. Reports of seventeen deaths attributed to the storm of Wednesday evening were received to-day. A naval seaplane circling over the Marshlands bordering the gulf found eleven bodies near a shattered fishing camp. Parties are searching near Covent, Louisiana, where six are believed to have been drowned when a tug boat was swamped.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 7
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