SOUTHERN TRINIDAD
SWEPT BY HURRICANE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), i;,- ■ ‘ June 29. Scenes of death and destruction were described to-day as repaired communication lines brought the first reports from Southern Trinidad of havoc wrought by a hurricane on Tuesday night. A howling storm lashed the coast all Tuesday night. It blew out yesterday, leaving fallen telegraph and telephone lines, unroofed houses, and broken oilfield derricks in its wake.
Several deaths from drowning arc reported as a result of the foundering of small boats. A number of people were injured when trees were uprooted. The hurricane was accompanied by torrential rains. It caused much damage in the south-east, but reached its height in the south-west, centring around the Palorsco oil district.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21994, 1 July 1933, Page 11
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