DISASTROUS CYCLONE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 7

DISASTROUS CYCLONE

FATALITIES ON PLANTATIONS UNITED STATES DISASTER. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. The heavy toil of the cyclone was oa the plantations at Neweilton (Louisiana) where 14 people were killed and many injured. There is a prospect of the casualties being increased when neighbouring plantations arc heard from Nine people were killed and eighteen, seriously hurt at Pleasant Hill (Louisiana). Eight people were killed and several injured at Rosehill (Mississippi). lhe storm swept Louisiana near Shreveport and travelled eastward acrosr the northern sections of both States, increasing in fury as it proceeded, accompaunied by high winds and heavy rains. Rescue workers are still searching the ruins of dwellings. Ou the Pacific Coast. More storms on the Pacific had a disastrous effect on shipping as they approached. Already havoc has been wrought on the coast. Three marine accidents have been reported, tho most serious of which concerned the United States Shipping Board freighter Elkton, which is believed to bo sunk ofl Iloilo (Philippines) with a crew of 37 aboard. Four destroyers arc searching for the vossed between the Philippines and Guam, where she was last heard from.

Heavy seas forced tho Canadian freighter Steel Exporter to return io Honolulu for engine repairs. The Standard oil tanker F. H. Hi IL man. bound for San Francisco from London, was driven ashore at Stn Nicholas Island, but finally succeeded in getting off tho rocks.