TORNADO SWEEPS CITY
Heavy Mexican Death Roll
FIVE THOUSAND CASUALTIES Enormous Property Damage POPULACE PANIC-STRICKEN. TERRIBLE HOUR IN GALE (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.45 p.iu. to-day. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26. Five thousand are reported dead or injured and thousands homeless as a ■result olf a hurricane which swept over Tampico late on Sunday and Monday, causing enormous property damage. The city of Tampico was flooded and virtually isolated. The wind reached a. velocity of 125 miles an hour. A civil hospital, a. railway station and the Customs house were levelled ancl nearly every other structure was destroyed "or unroofed. Bighty-seven persons- were killed when • the civil hospital collapsed, according to wireless reports received through (Texas). Reports from the site of a wrecked radio station where a Pan-American aeroplane engine is providing power to work the radio, tell of appalling damage. The populace is pamc-stncken. Thousands were washed out of their homes and thousands are missing or under ruins of the city; three-quarters of which has been destroyed. It is believed to be the greatest disaster in recent Mexican history. The Secretary for the Interior, Senor Edouard Vasconceloe, said the number of dead cannot be stated exactly.
Tampico is a city of 70,000 inhabitants.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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