STORM IN CALCUTTA
WORST IN LIVING MEMORY PARTS OF CITY FLOODED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, May 18. (Received May 19, at 10.45 a.m.) The severest storm in living memory visited Calcutta this evening, an eighty-mile-an-hour gale causing heavy damage. Telegraph and telephone lines were broken, trees uprooted, and parts of the city were flooded. All vehicular traffic was interrupted. The walls of houses in the poorer parts collapsed. Fifteen people were injured. One hundred thatched houses in the suburbs were blown away. Hawks and crows were dashed to death against trees and houses by the fury of the storm.
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Evening Star, Issue 21724, 19 May 1934, Page 15
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100STORM IN CALCUTTA Evening Star, Issue 21724, 19 May 1934, Page 15
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