GALE DISASTER

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1930, Page 7

GALE DISASTER

HAVOC IN WEST INDIES SAN DOMINGO DEVASTATED FURTHER DAMAGE FEARED AMAZINGLY- FIERCE WIND MAY REACH UNITED STATES By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 9.20 p.m. I Washington, Sept. 4.El Pais, the Spanish language newspaper, reports that authentic information has been received that San Domingo City (Haiti) was devastated by a hurricane late on Wednesday. The San Junanvr Radio Corporation announce that the last advices from San Domingo stated that the wind there was blowing at 160 miles an hour. El Pais, tho Spanish language newspaper, reports that authentic information has been received that San Domingo City (Haiti) was devastated by a hurricane late on Wednesday. The San Junanva/Radio Corporation announces that the last advices from San Domingo stated that the wind there was blowing at 160 miles an hour. Word is awaited fearfully this morning from San Domingo of the extent of the damage done by the hurricane, which started late on Wednesday and blotted many islands in the West Indies group from communication with the outside world. South-eastern United States watched anxiously the progress of the hurricane north-westward as reported by the Weather Bureau. The speed of the hurricane is estimated at between 135 and 160 miles an hour. It is reported to have devastated Santa Domingo and is hurrying northward into the Atlantic Ocean.. Cuba is deeply concerned with the possibility tjiat the Westward course of the disturbance may change into a more northward direction and cut a swathe of destruction across the island. Government reports received from Washington indicate the barometer fell to the low point 29.07 in. at one time in Santa Domingo. Cable companies having stations on the outskirts of the city report that all land lines are down and the extent of the damage is unknown.

The Pan-America Airways in a radio message received from Trinidad and the Havana newspaper El Pais were in receipt of information that Santa Domingo was the centre of the great storm, the wind of 150 miles an hour lifting the roofs off the houses and all communications and power lines rapidly going down. All meteorological stations in the Caribbean Sea area have issued warnings of storm which is believed to be second in intensity only, to the Florida hurricane. Whether the wind will blow itself out before it reaches continental United States is not yet indicated. DAMAGE IN LEEWARD GROUP. DOMINICA’S CROPS DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 3. It is reported that a hurricane of considerable intensity passed over Dominica on September 1, casing considerable damage to public and private property. There have been two death;, and it is" feared thM all crops have been destroyed. So far as is known the other islands in the Leeward Group have not been affected.