OVER 300 KILLED IN AMERICAN HURRICANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 8

OVER 300 KILLED IN AMERICAN HURRICANE.

THOUSANDS INJURED.

Insane Patients Riot at

State Hospital.

FIRES FOLLOW STORIf

T'ni t*-<J Press Association—Copj-right. I ItocrivpJ l».:SO a.m.} Nh\\ "iORK, September 22. A A\ e>t Indian hurricane strnek the Atlantic seaboard of the Unitjvl States yesterday. It swept from the State ..t New Jersey in the north fa> the Connecticut Valley in the south. With known dead at 30G. the tail of the hurricane finally whipped its Way across Montreal to Northern Canadi The storm, which did more thaa 100.000.000 dollars of damage, i s the worst to hit New England forV centurv The number of dead may reach 500 if all at present reported missing remim unaccounted for. Thirty people on the Long Island Sound ferry are missing. The island', most serious disaster occurred at Westhampton, where eight are dead and 50 missing. One hundred summer cottages owned by very wealthy people were swept out to sea. The shore was devastated, 12 being killed. 1- ire Island was smashed bv a 40ft tidal wave. Two are dead. In New Jersey and New York om person was killed in each district. Fire followed the storm in several Connecticut cities. Three thousand people are in hospital and 3000 are homeless in the storm area. Collapsing Buildings. Hundreds were injured by collapsiag buildings, by objects blown about, br falling trees and in numerous fires. The film actress. Miss Mary Pickfort, is reported to have narrowly escaped death or injury when a tree fell on her motor car while she was on her wav to Westchester County. At Lowell. Massachusetts, doctors removed a boy's eye by candle light wbea the jower failed. " At Middletova, Connecticut, the State Hospital was a scene of horror. Insane patients rioted at the hurricane's height. Five days of rain have brought high flood conditions in Connecticut, where the rivers are reaching the hipWt level in 75 years. Tidal waves struck Providence and Boston, sweeping 1000 ft inland and doing great damage.