DAMAGE IN AMERICAN HURRICANE
ESTIMATE OF NEARLY £10,000,000 LONDON. Sept. 15. Hurricane damage in the eastern States of the United States is estimated at nearly £10,000,000. At least 11 persons were killed and 150 were injured. The weather bureau says that the hurricane, which swept nearly 1000 miles of the Atlantic coast, was the worst on record. In New York seven persons were electrocuted by exposed wires. Dozens of shop windows in one part of the city were blown out, and this section has been roped off to prevent looting.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24365, 18 September 1944, Page 4
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