SEVERE STORM DAMAGE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 September 1933, Page 7

SEVERE STORM DAMAGE

CENTRAL AMERICA SUFFERS. GALES AND HEAVY RAIN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SAN SALVADOR, Sept. 24. . A prolonged storm in Central America has caused extensive damage, diver tin p- rivers from their beds, uprooting trees and drowning hundreds of domestic animals. The storm continued strongly to-night. For the second time in ten days Tampico and vicinity (Mexico) were pounded hv a tropical hurricane, interrupting all communications and causing fears of another disaster like the recent one that caused 50 deaths and enormous property damage. More than 100 planters are homeless in Central Trinidad, says a Port of Spain message, as a result of gale* and torrential rains that destroyed property and crops and paralysed transportation and communications. Swollen with torrential rains, the River Uula threatened to wipe out- the. city Progresa to-night with rising floods, Tegucigalpa (Honduras) reports The floods have already overflowed the dykes and swept'through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.