AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
Australian Press Assn.—United Service
HURRICANE CONTINUES NEW YORK, Sept-. 16. The hurricane, which desolated Porto Rico, Eastern Shore and San Domingo Virgin Islands, is unabated. It raked Bahamas on Sunday. Seventy per cent, of the buildings at San Juanpr are said to he destroyed. Ten persons are dead and seven hundred arc homeless at Poueepr. Thirty are dead at Humecopr and hundreds are homeless at St. Croix. - Virgin Islands shipping is destroyed. A yessol is reported lost with all hands at Turkishlandbur. Ten thousand inhabitants of the stricken islands are homeless and assistance is imperative to avoid disease and famine. Coffee, tobacco and fruit crops are ruined. Power, light and water supplies are disrupted. The total deaths is unknown, because communications are down, hut it is believed to he high.
Rockford (llinois) states that fifteen are dead or missing and hundreds were injured in Friday’s hurricane.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1928, Page 3
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