BAHIA STORM
STILL RAGING HUNDREDS OF DEATHS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Conyrighl BAHIA (Brazil), Monday. The most violent storm in Bahia’s history continued in its seventh straight day. Deaths and injuries are mounting up, and floods are adding to the devastation. Officers and volunteers dug through the debris and are dragging out bodies. Engineers strove to divert the floods from the inundated streets. The deaths are unofficially estimated at more than 400, but the total is believed to be greater. Two thousand are homeless, and the damage is incalculable. Little is known of the amount of damage in the interior on account of wrecked communications.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 May 1935, Page 5
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