TOLL OF HURRICANE
PLANTERS HOMELESS. DAMAGE IN TRINIDAD. PORT OF SPAIN, Monday. More than 100 planters are homeless in Central Trinidad following gales and torrential rains on Sunday night. Property and crops have been destroyed, and transportation communications are paralysed. For the second time in ten days Tampico and its vicinity were pounded on Sunday night by a tropical hurricane, says a message from Mexico City. All communications are interrupted, and there are fears of another disaster like the recent one that, caused fifty deaths and enormous property damage. Swollen with torrential rains, the flooded river Ulua threatened to wipe out the city of Progreso, in Honduras. The flood waters are rising, and already have overflowed the dykes and swept through the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company. A prolonged storm in Central America caused extensive damage in Salvador. Rivers have been diverted from their beds, trees have been uprooted, and hundreds of domestic animals have been drowned. The storm continued strongly on Sunday night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 5
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