EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
CENTRAL AMERICAN STORM WIDE AREA AFFECTED RAN SALVADOR, Sept. 24. The 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 to-night. For tin* second time in 10 days, Tampico arid its vicinity were pounded by a tropical hurricane, interrupting all ■communications, .and causing fears of another disaster like the recent one that caused 50 deaths and enormous damage to property. More than 100 planters were homeloss in Central Trinidad, following gales and torrential rams that destroyed property and crops, and paralysed tra import at ion communications. Swollen with torrential rains, the river Ulna threatened to wipe out the city of Progreso, Honduras, to-night, with rising floods, which already have overflowed the dykes, and swept through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 5
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142EXTENSIVE DAMAGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 5
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