SCENES OF DEATH
HURRICANE HAVOC DAMAGE IN TRINIDAD. Press Assujlailja Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Friday, 12.5 p.m.) PORT OF SPAIN, Thursday. Scenes of death and destruction were described to-day as repaired communication lines brought the first reports from Southern Trinidad of the havoc wrought by Tuesday night’s hurricane. A howling storm lashed the coast all Tuesday night, and blew out yesterday, leaving fallen telegraph, and telephone lines, unroofed houses, and broken oilfield derricks in its wake. ■Several cases of drowning are reported, owing to the foundering of small boats. A number of people were injured when trees were uprdoted. The hurricane was accompanied by torrential rain, and caused much damage in the south-east, but reached its height in the south-west, centring around the Palorosco oil district.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 June 1933, Page 5
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