CENTRAL AMERICAN STORM

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 7

CENTRAL AMERICAN STORM

TORRENTS DESTROY PROPERTY. HONDURAS CITY THREATENED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. San Salvador, Sept. 24. : 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 to-night. For the second time in ten days Tampico and vicinity (Mexico) 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 property damage. More than 100 planters are homeless in Central Trinidad, says a Port of Spain message, as a result of gales and torrential rains that destroyed property and crops- and paralysed transportation and communications.

Swollen with torrential rains, the River Ulua threatened to wipe out the city Progreso to-night with rising floods, Tegucigalpa (Honduras) reports. The floods already have overflowed the dykes and swept through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.