A TERRIFIC STORM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22068, 26 September 1933, Page 7

A TERRIFIC STORM

CENTRAL AMERICA SWEPT EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN SALVADOR, September 24. (Received, Sept. 25, at 10 p.m.) A prolonged storm in Central America has caused extensive damage, diverting rivers from their beds, uprooting trees, and drowning hundreds of domestic animals. The storm continued strongly on Sunday night. FLOODS IN HONDURAS. TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras), September 24. Swollen with torrential rains, the River Ulua threatened to wipe out the City of Progreso to-night with rising floods, which already have overflowed dykes and swept through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company. HURRICANE IN MEXICO. ANOTHER DISASTER FEARED. MEXICO CITY, September 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 10 p.m.) For the second' time in 10 days Tampico and its vicinity were pounded on Sunday night by a tropical hurricane which interrupted all communications and is causing fears of another disaster like the recent one that caused 50 deaths and enormous property damage. CENTRAL TRINIDAD. OVER ONE HUNDRED HOMELESS. PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), September 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 10 p.m.) Mora than 100 planters were homeless in Central Trinidad on Sunday night following gales and torrential rains that destroyed property and crops and paralysed transportation communications.