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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 5

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SATURDAY’S: GAMES

To-morrow’s games on Cass Square comprise a senior game between Rivals and Cobden and a junior one between Rimu and Kiwi. Both games will be played at 3 p.m. and should provide good contests. The Excelsiors journey north to play Brunner,

Tile following will represent Cobdeti again Rivals to-morrow:—King, Glover, E'ggleton, Mead, Sexton, Taafe. Rimmer, Wilson, Dunstan, Spencer, Keith, Birclifield, Sharp, Anderson, Eggelton, Burgess.

Kiwi juniors v. Rimu:-—Diedrich (2) Webb, S'wenay, Parkhill, Griffin, Sumner, Broadbent, White, Dowling, Connolly, Bell, Fleming, Heinz, Dale. Stapleton, Morgan and Walker.

- Rivals team to play Cfobden on Cass Square to-morrow:—Carter, gtopforth : Muir, Pfahlert, Pawson, Houston, Larcombe, Monk, Fleming (2), Hutchison, i Martin, Dawson, Olsen, Smythe.

' j The following -will represent Rinui in their match against Kiwis to-mer-row:—Growcott (2), Agnew, Lewis. Boyd, Xinger, Russell,,. Hunt, Inglis C2), Ogilvie' (2), - Stoop, Wright and Mitchell. .

HAVANA (Chbo), Sept. 3,

“El Pais,” a Spanish language newspaper'liere, reports that authentic information Has been received ‘that Santa Domingo City was devasted by a hurricane late on Wednesday. At San Juan the 'Rad io , ' , Cotpbration announces that thef >hdVic§s Jrom Santa DOmingo stated that the wind •there Was blowing at IGO miles per hour.. : .. /.Y:i'v

TRACK OF THE STORM

NEARLY AS BAD AS FLORIDA BLOW. NEW YORK, September 3.

The Santa Domingo hurricane’s speed is estimated at between 135 hiiles and 160 miles per hour. It'is reported to have devastated Santa Domingo. i The hurricane is now hurrying northward into the Atlantic Ocean.

. Cuba is deeply concerned to-night with this possibility that,'- v the' westward course of the disturbance- riiight change into a rhor© i-iiorlliward direction, and .cut a swathe of destruction across the island of .Gubar.'; 1 - ’-:vL’

Goyermheint reports received from Washington indicate that the y barometer fell to the low poiht: oF 29.07 at one time in Santa Domingo.

Cable companies having stations on the ’outskirts of the city, of Santa Domingo report that all of the land lines there are down, 1 and that' the extent of the damage is unknown. The Pan American Airways, in radio messages received from Trini-j dad, and also the Havana newspaper “El Pais” were in receipt of information that Santa Domingo was the centre of a great storm, with a 150 miles an hour wind, lifting the roofs off the houses, and that all the comiminidations and .power linos were, rapidly going down. : . All of the meteorological stations in Caribbean Sea area have issued, warnings of the storm, which is believed to -be second : in 'intensity only to the recent Florida hurricane.

Whether the wind will blow itself out before it reaches the continental United States'has not been yet indicated.

ANXIETY ON MAINLAND

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3

Word is awaited fearfully this morning from Santa Domingo of the extent of the damage done by the hurricane which settled late on the Wednesday, and blotted it from communication with the other islands in the West Indies group. The South Eastern United States watched anxiously the progress of the hurricane as it moved northwestward, on the basis of the reports of the Weather Bureau.

FURTHER) PARTICULARS. (Received this rln.v at 9. ft.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Til© All America Cable Company

has established communication with Santa Domingo and was advised that fifty. per cent of the'city was destroyed and medical aid and food was urgently needed.

Authoritative early estimates place the dead at three hundred and the injured at almost one thousand. ’ln Santa Domingo alone the damage is estimated at considerably more than fifteen million dollars. The greatest damage appeared in, the city itself, Outlying regions reporting less severe. An insane, asfl.um. was destroyed, the inmates escaping the terror stricken city.

The city authorities are pleading for aeroplanes to be sent bearing food and medical aid for the city’s population of fifty thousand, which is mostly homeless.

HAITI WRECKED

MANY LIVES LOST

(Received this dav at 9. a.m.) . NEW YORK, Sept. 4

The. city of Siinta Domingo, which is the most ancient settlement of the white man ip the New World, was virtually destroyed by a hurricane which swept the, eastern end of the island of. Haiti on Wednesday.

Jt is believed nine hundred persons were killed or injured. The hurricane struck Santa Domingo at two p.m. and blew for four hours. Houses in tlie aristocratic quarter were razed and the dwellings of the P oor pimply disappeared on , the wings of the . wind, which was. estimated at a velocity of 150 miles per hpn.r/. . Scenes of ' horror, .' exceeding / Any, thing witnessed in ten , years,, have oocurred;

President Rafael Trujillo took charge of the relief work. The entire’ army was called out. The communications system of the Republic were totally destroyed, and there is no news from the rest of the country in the neighbourhood of the capital.’ Bridges were wrecked and roads are impassable. Telegraph lines simply vanished. Lunatics who escaped from an asylum were finally recaptured in the streets. Many robberies have 'been reported. The districts of Neu.vn.viHa, Duarte, and San Barlas were destroyed, scarcely a wall being left standing. NEW YORK, Sept. 4.

The Cuban Government observatory at two p.m. announced the velocity of the hurricane ! 'ivas still 142 mdes per hours. Two amphibian planes bearing Red Cross relief arrived at Santa Domingo aaid the third departed . front San Jtian (Porto Rico) at three p.m'.'