STORM DISASTERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1926, Page 3

STORM DISASTERS.

STORM IN BAY OF BENGAL*. [by TELEGRArn rER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CALCUTTA, Sopt. 19. During a storm in. the Bay of Benga, a native craft carrying two hundred native passengers w.os capsized. A steamer brought twenty-six survivors to the port. There is no trace of the others. VANCOUVER, Sept. 19. The New Orleans Tropical Radio Station received the following message today from Miami: “Miami is in ruins after the worst hurricane in. the history of the country. Seventy are known to be dead. The property damage amounts to one hundred million dollars-and more than ' two thousand buildings were destroyc” $ including the Bank Buildings anti the Miami “Tribune.” The City docks were completely destroyed. All the boats in the harbour were sunk, including the s.s. Nohab (formerly owned by the ex-Kaiser of Germany), pood medical supplies and troops arc need ed.” The message which was sent from a makeshift station in Mituni, after tin Company’s six 450 foot towers had b ■ blown down, was intended for the steamship Siboney, this vessel being the r closest to the city. It was picked up at Mobile and relayed to New Orleans. In connection with the Miami disaster, it lias been impossible since Friday at midnight for the officials to believe that the blow struck on Friday night or Saturday morning. News from Jacksonville (Florida) states that •the heavy toll of devastation in Southern Florida is impossible to estimate accurately until communication is reestablished. The Indian hurricane on Saturday night raged across Everglades, through Tampa, Port Myers and the west coast cities, into the Gulf of Mexico.. Little is known of the fate of ocean-going shipping. It is believed that most < the vessels were warned in time to reach shelter. Small craft were smashed i?nd sunk, and the docks on the east coast were wrecked. A new Orleans message states that the Miami “Tribune” building was a cement structure and reinforced with steel and regarded as one of the most substantial in Miami town. r HEAVY RAIN IN lOWA. - VANCOUVER, Sept. 19. A Chicago message states that the rain was almost unprecedented in severity and was reported from northeastern lowa this morning thrmi telling to increase the total of the series of the September floods in the Middle West, to which already five deaths and damage in excess of two millions are attributed. The railroads suffered heavily ' from washouts.