EXTENSIVE STORM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 7

EXTENSIVE STORM

SOUTH AMERICAN AREA. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. FLOOD WATERS RISE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Sept. '24. More than 100 planters are homeless in Central Trinidad following gales and torrential rains on Sunday night. Property and crops have been destroyed, and transportation communications are paralysed. For tho second time in ten days Tampico and its vicinity were pounded on Sunday night by a tropical hurricane, says a message from Mexico City. All communications are interrupted, and there are fears of another disaster like the recent one that caused fifty deaths and enormous property damage. Swollen with torrential rains, the flooded Ulua River has threatened to wipe out tho city of Progreso, in Honduras. The flood waters are rising, and already have overflowed the dykes and swept through the' banana plantations of the United Fruit Company. A prolonged storm in Central America caused extensive damage in Salvador. Rivers have been diverted from their beds, trees have been uprooted, and hundreds of domestic animals have been drowned. Tho storm continued strongly on Sunday night.