LOSS OF SEVENTY LIVES
JAMAICAN STORM TOLL TRAIL OF RUIN LEFT. BUILDINGS AND PLANTATIONS. RUSHING RIVERS IN STREETS. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyrignt.) KINGSTON, Aug. 16. Seventy persons were drowned today by floods in tile city of Kingston and the Jamaican parishes of St. Thomas, St. Catherine and St. Mary following a storm. The damage is esti. mated at 2,060,000 dollars. Bridges and buildings were swept away and banana plantations wore levelled. The storm lasted six hours and is described as the worst m 80 years. The water rose as high as six feet in the streets and rushed through dwellings. washing away many occupants who were trapped in them.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 18 August 1933, Page 5
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