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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1930, Page 5

All of the available houses, churches and hospitals are filled with wounded. Fifty, mothers of new-born babies were killed in the collapse of one maternity hospital. Many of the mothers were decapitated by sheets of zinc w’ith which the building was lined. MATERNITY HOSPITAL HORROR. SANTO DOMINGO, September (j. There is no estimate of the number of. women and infants killed at the Maternity Hospital here. The Hospital buildings were roofed with zinc, sheets of which were ripped away by the 160 miles per hour wind, mowing down all human beings in its path. Fifty of the bodies in the hospital were decapaitated.

INLAND towns devasted. SANTO DOMINGO, September 6. Parties now have . penetrated the area for fifteen miles on every side of Santo Domingo, and they report that all is desolation. The. injured in the outlying sections, due to the impassability of the roads, have little hope of receiving aid for days. The storm has wiped out the great stores of coffee,, sugar, cocoa, and fruits, which had been prepared Tor export, and were ruined by the wind and rain. 'SOME RELIEF ARRIVES. SANTO DO-MfNGO, September 0. The city is still without light, power or water. A squadron of six aeroplanes, from Cuba, bearing physicians and medical supplies, has landed here this morning, and a ship has arrived with food and medical supplies. Their arrival has brought new hope to the little body of local officials who have worked without rest,