DAMAGE BY STORM
TROPICAL CONVULSION IN HAITI. 200 PERSONS KILLED. By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn. VANCOUVER, August 18. A message from Port Au Prince, Haiti, states that it is estimated that 200 are dead, 10,000 homeless, many villages wiped out, and incalculable crop damage caused as the result of a tropical storm on Friday. The storm was the worst experienced for 4 0 years. Damage to roads, wire communications and public services approximates 1,000,000 dollars. Many small coastwise craft were sunk or hurled damaged in the beach. Torrential rain continued for 29 hours, the wind reaching hurricane force.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 249, 20 August 1928, Page 5
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