Central America Hit by Storm

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7271, 26 September 1933, Page 6

Central America Hit by Storm

Hurricane Causes Widespread Damage

FEARS OF ANOTHER DISASTER

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 8.20 p.m. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 24.

For the second time in ten ouya, Tampico and vicinity were pounded on Sunday night by a tropical hurricane, interrupting all communications and causing fears of another disaster like the recent one that caused 50 deaths and enormous property damage.

El Salvador Rivers Diverted From Beds Received Monday, 5.20 p.m. SAN SALVADOR (El Salvador Sept. 24. A prolonged storm in Central America has caused extensivo damage, diverting rivers from their beds, uprooting trees and drowning hundreds of domestic animals. The storm continued strongly on Sunday night.

Trinidad Planters Homeless Received Monday, 8.20 p.m. PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Sept. 24. More than 100 planters were homeless in Central Trinidad on Sunday night following gales and torrentialrains that destroyed property and crops and paralysed transportation and communications.

Honduras €ity Threatened

Received Monday, 5.20 p.m. TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras), Sept. 24. Swollen with torrential Tains, the River Ulua threatened to wipe out the City of Progreso to-night with rising floods, which already have_ overflowed the dykes and swept through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.