THE HURRICANE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1930, Page 5

THE HURRICANE

LATEST ESTIMATES. / I'Cnited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Governor Roosevelt, of Porto Rieo, cabled to tho Red Cross Society fadny that the estimates of. the dead in the city of Santa Domingo in Haiti Island, may l>e as high as one tliloustand,' though these are unofficial. . An aviator, who flew over the city, reported that the finest of its buildings have been destroyed. EIGHT HUNDRED DEAD COUNTED __ . g NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The President of the S*n Dominican Republic, Senor Trujillo, has informed the Aide of Governor Roosevelt of Porto Rieo, that already eight hundred dead have been counted in Santa Domingo City alone, and that 75 per cent of the buf.dings tiierchave. been demolished. The interior of the country hns not ibeen heard from. .. ; v .•*;■ ■ .‘ • • ' '' v '' " • «!■■<-- NEARLY ALL HOMELESS. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. It is indicated that ninety per cen of the people of Santa Domingo an homeless. Martial law has been declared there The Red Cross Society to-day cablet an initial appropriation of fiftee: thousand'dollars for the • strickei area, while the Navy and Marin* ■Corps have placed facilities in the West Indies for the transport of supplies. ' NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The 'San Dominican Republic, which has; been> suffering from severe eco momio* depression for more than fl year,-will now. it. is believed, have to face a difficult situation. While its tobacco crop has already beer harvested, it is believed that its cocoa crop has been destroyed; > ■

STORM MOVES WESTWARD. ' NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The Weather''Bureau' officials here were hopeful, but not completely con fident, that the 7iurricane, which, al , though moving with a circular forc< in excess of. one hundred miles ar, jhour; is ‘ advancing approximately a only ‘ fifteen‘ miles an hour, wouh jniss, at least with its full force, the Florida coast. The Havana Observatory, however has reported to-night that the hurri ■cane was approximately five huhdref -miles off Key West, near the 'begin 'hing of the* Great Bahama Banks ; and that it had veered north to ap jproximately north-west. A LUCKY CENTRE. NEW TORK, Sept. 5. The city' of Port Au Prince, at th< other end of Haiti Island, appears tr have escaped the effects of the hurri cane, it reporting only high wind and torrential rains. Information from the stricken cen tres is trickling in slowly over ; single cable connection, which ha? (been arranged on the beach by thi All-American Cable Company, and the information available is scanty. SANTA. DOMINGO’S PLIGHT. •FURTHER PARTICULARS. Jfleoeived this dnv »+ 9. am.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Captain •. Antonio Silva, Red Cros? official, on ( Friday . estimated that r thousand were killed, five thousand injured, 4,700 homes destroyed, and '29,000 were homeless at Santa Doani’ngo; There is twenty million dollars damage and hunger is stalking through the debris filled streets, although many thousands are provided with emergency rationing. Rebel shV B are being rushed. here.