TAMPICO HURRICANE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22070, 28 September 1933, Page 9

TAMPICO HURRICANE

CITY VIRTUALLY ISOLATED

TERRIBLE CASUALTY LIST

(United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

MEXICO CITY, September 20,

Five thousand people are dead or injured and thousands are homeless as the result of the hurricane which swept over Tampico late on Sunday and Monday, causing enormous damage to property. The city of Tampico is flooded and virtually Isolated. ' The wind reached a velocity of 125 miles per hour. The Civil Hospital, the railway station, and the Customs house were levelled. Nearly every other structure was destroyed or unroofed.

HOSPITAL COLLAPSES.

EIGHTY-SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED.

BROWNSVILLE (Texas), Sept. 26. According to wireless reports 87 people were killed at Tampico on Sunday night when the Civil Hospital collapsed.

A LATER MESSAGE,

COMMUNICATIONS REOPENED.

MEXICO CITY. September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 5.5 p.m.)

All communications with Tampico were reopened this afternoon, and direct word was received that the death roll is 500 in Tampico. The military authorities report that they rescued large numbers of people who were neck deep in water. All the towns along the banks Of the Panucotamesi and the shores of Lake Carpintero have been destroyed, while Tampico suburbs have been severely damaged. An airman who circled the city said that the majority of the large buildings had resisted the shock, but fully half of the cheaper native dwellings were demolished.

WATER SUPPLY EXHAUSTED.

AN EPIDEMIC FEARED.

TAMPICO, September 29. (Received Sept. 27, at 8 p.m.) The death roll from Sunday’s 1 hurricane was placed officially on Monday night at 50, with 300 injured. Much of the city was laid waste. It is feared, however, that many more bodies are buried in the debris or have not been recovered from the water which swirled in from overflowing rivers to cover lowlying sections. Unofficial estimates state that the injured number thousands. Hundreds of homeless people are huddled in municipal buildings, schools, and parks, and all are being supplied with {Small rations of corn, beans and coffee from the meagre supply remaining: The water supply is exhausted, and an epidemic is feared.