TERRIFIC HURRICANE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22519, 29 September 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

TERRIFIC HURRICANE

Disaster in United States :jp Nearly 700 people were killed by ; tfcii' hurricane which struck the Atlantic board of the United States and CanadalM* week. .. '■ The damage was placed originally 3.** 100,000,000 dollars, but later reports show that the hurricane passed over six American states, Canada, and Newfoundland, and;;it , seems likely that this figure will be increased more than four times. .

Fire followed the storm in several Con - * necticut cities. Three thousand were taka* to hospital, and thousands are homeless In the storm area. - -

The wind reached a velocity of 120 milts an hour, in New York city, and it is believed, to have been, higher elsewhere. New. -York city’s power supply lines .were brokOßj> and. the central portion of the city was With--out flights for some time. Many radio stir" tions were out of commission. * *' The liner Queen Mary delayed itsfor a day. The tail of the hurricane finally - its way acrtfcs Montreal to Northem Canadh,'The part of the storm which hit Newfoundland was the worst for a century. •> Mr Roosevelt- ordered aU available 'Gofyf-g* ernmental aid for the stricken communities where the hurricane damage varies frdßg : , a fallen tree across a motor-car to the struction of whole areas.- *-ra=

At Boston, Providence, Hartford, ,N«f> London, and Long Island, numerous 'trains".' were overturned, and' miles of concrete’roads:torn up. In many towns martial law 1 , has been declared. * *