FURTHER REPORTS
ASSISTANCE NEEDED Australiau I're3S Association—United Service. (Received 17th September, 8 a.m.) NEW YOBK, Kith September. The hurricane, which destroyed Porto Eieo and the eastern shoro of the Auto Domingo and the Virgin Islands, with unabated force raked the Bahamas on Sunday. Seventy per cent, of the buildings at San Juan, I'orto Hico, are said to' have been destroyed. Ten are dead and seven hundred homeless at Ponco and thirty dead at Iluniaco. and hundreds are homeless. At St. Croix, Virgin Islands, shipping was destroyed. A vessel was reported lost with all hands iit Turk Island.'Tens of thousands! of inhabitants in the stricken islands are homeless, and assistance is imperative, to avoid disease and famine. Tlio coffee, tobacco, and fruit crops wero rninud, and pbiver, light, and water supplies disrupted. Tlio total of deaths is unknown, because communications are down. It is believed tho number is high. •At Kockford (Illinois) fifteen are dead and missing and a hundred injured as the result of Friday's hurricane.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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166FURTHER REPORTS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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