CITY WRECKED

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 7

CITY WRECKED

HURRICANE AT TAMPICO

HUNDREDS BELIEVED DEAD

POPULACE PANIC-STRICKEN

THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS

GALE 115 MILES AN HOUR

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10 p.m. Mexico City, Sept. 26 Reports from the site of a wrecked radio station where a Pan-American aeroplane engine is providing power to work the radio, tell cf appalling damage in the city of Tampico, which was wrecked by a hurricane of 115 miles an hour on Sunday evening. The hurricane blew itself out in an hour. There is no confirmation of a previous report that 5000 are dead, but the death roll is very heavy. The populace is panic-stricken. Thousands were washed out of their homes and thousands are missing or under ruins of the city, three-quarters of which has been destroyed. It is believed to be the greatest disaster in recent Mexican history.

The Secretary for the Interior, Senor Edouard Vasconcelos, said the number of dead cannot be stated exactly. From Tampico itself the military chief of the district reported by wireless many dead and injured. From the steamer Sapinero came an estimate of 200 dead and hundreds homeless.