SEVERE STORMS
WIND AND FLOODS CENTRAL AMERICA AND WEST INDIES EXTENSIVE DAMAGE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.20 p.m.) Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Sept. 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. , A report from San Salvador (El Salvador) states that 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. For the second time in. ten days Tampico (Mexico) 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. . A message from Port of Spam (Trinidad) states that more than a hundred planters were homeless in Central Trinidad on Sunday night following gales and torrential rains that destroyed property and crops and paralysed transportation and communications.
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Southland Times, Issue 22130, 26 September 1933, Page 7
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175SEVERE STORMS Southland Times, Issue 22130, 26 September 1933, Page 7
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