SWEPT BY STORM
DISASTER IN HAITI.
TWO HUNDRED DEAD. MANY VILLAGES WIPED OUT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegiapii Copyright.) (Austra'ian Press Association — United Service.) VANCOUVER, Aug. IS. A message froth Port au Prince, Haiti, states that lit is estimated that 200 are dead, 10,000 people are homeless, many villages were wiped out, and incalculable damage caused to crops as the result of a tropical storm last I riThe storm was kite worst experienced for 40 years. The damage to roads, wire com mil nidations and public services approximate a. million dollars. Many small coastwise craft were sunk or hurled damaged on the beach, Torrential rain continued .for 20 hours, the wind reaching hurricane force.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 August 1928, Page 7
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