WILD HURRICANE
TRAGEDY IN TEXAS ENORMOUS LOSSES INCURRED. FRUIT CROPS BLOWN FROM TREES. (By Telegraph—Preus Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 7, 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. A message from Edinburgh, Texas, states that 32 dead, 1500 injured, and damage of millions of dollars are the known toll of a tropical hurricane which devastated the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, one of the richest agricultural areas of the United States, on Monday night and Tuesday. Citrus growers were the heaviest losers, some 90 per cent, of the 12,000,000 dollar crop being blown from the trees. DEATHS REDUCED. (Received 7, 12.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The deaths in Edinburgh were reduced to eighteen when the re-estab-lishment of communication with Brownsville revealed that there were no fatalities there. STORM IN WEST AUSTRALIA. CIRCUS SUFFERS BADLY. (Received 7, 11.10 a.m.) PERTH, Sept. 7. A wind and rain storm lasting several hours caused the suspension of traffic at one period. Wirth’s Circus suffered badly, a large marquee being ripped to ribbons and the menagerie flattened. The velocity of the wind reached 62 miles an hour.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 7
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