BIG DEATH ROLL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 15

BIG DEATH ROLL.

' f ~M c k OF •;; -suss=s^>. Ke ' c eiv:ed September sth, 7 p.m.) .P ( 8 > ! - that . the l ; £ot the dead at Santo Domingo I ,'?!»• v be J S t £ flgiTare unofficial it vs^ hat 90 per cent 1 decided. jlartial Jaw flew over the city Th lSat the finest buildings are ( eporio" . ,Jest!#?*' l'i^c'"at the other end of htorricane, reporting only and torrential rains. • from the stricken centre i*fin slow iy over the single I *'* !">oSxion arranged on the beach A All-America Cable Company ' 'Sji t l * 6 information available is ! ' bureau officials hero were |Kf but not completely eonfidont,- ' Sffe hurricane which, although mpv- ' ■ ft circular force in excess of i •& 3fo an hour, was advancing ap- - tinatelv only fifteen miles an hour fe -mis*, at least _ with its hill fiSr the Florida Coast. 1 Havana Observatory, however, i -'- -Id to-night that the hurricane r ;; Imnroximately 500 miles off Key L beginning of the Great- ' ' Sana Banks, and had veered north "fr north-west. Red' Cross to-day cabled an ln•nid'appropriation of 15,000 dollars for ; -ME area and the Navy and .Corps, have placed facilities in "the Vest Indies for the transport of - republic, which is jhanai from a severe economic deian -for more than a year, it is beface the difficult situation. I'thV) tobacco crop has already been sted it is believed that the cacao iaa been destroyed, gident Trujillo has informed Gov- ' Roosevelt's aide-de-camp that |y 800 dead "have been counted m Domingo City alone, and 75 per of the buildings have been de"fnterior of the country has not Heard from.

|feWJNATICS"' ESCAPE. ! ■ IN. THE CITY. NE\V YOKE, September 4. city of Santo Domingo, which Ie most ancient settlements man in the New World, destroyed by a hurricane the eastern end- of the ;i on Wednesday. It is beere killed or injured .ne struck Sauto Domingo d blew-for four hours, aristocratic quarter were )e dwellings of the poor, pared on the wings of the vas estimated to be blowlocity of 150 miles an orror, exceeding anything ten years, occurred.. afael Trujillo took charge rosk, and the entire aemy natations system®, of th e, retotaUy. disrupted,. and iews from" the rest' of "the jieitrfiljoutfhOOd iof "the capitalIwreeked, the /roads are nd , 4 tha . telegraph lines nished.. , ies Have been reported. rfKueva Villa and Duarte e.been, destroyed, seprceg.left standing, lerica. Cable Company, to Ire-establish communihtoVDomingoj- aid swore.0 per cent, of the city : and that medical aid urgently needed. Autheltimates place the dead injured at almost,' 1"000. inga; alone, . the .damageconsiderably more than, ■rs.. The greatest dam.haye bfien done in the lying regions, reporting Jitions. was destroyed, the Og through the terror'who* escaped from the; nally" recaptured; i" the lprities are pieadiiig for e-sent bearing 1 food and 1 ,\he * eity's population we niostly homeless.-, SIRNLNGS ISSUED. OF .142 MILES AN YQKK, September 4. 8 now heading" nortner it will. strike Cuba a matter of conjecture. It concerned with the ths westward course * might change into 'a d direction and. ctit '• action across tVie "island - reports received- a* ndicate that tho the low. point of 29.w Santo Domingo. , , , igical stations in # tne l. have issued warnings vhich is believed to - he Bity only to-the -Florida hetherthe wind will ."'.-before, it reaches the i United Stateshas not ited : . rom London said that two deaths, and it was 1 ■ crops had- been dofar as-was known the the Leeward group had iovernment Observatory anced - that the velocity e .was still 142 miles an tan aeroplanes bearing E hare arriv-ed at Santo a third departed from to Rico) at 3 p.m.