GREAT STORM
STRIKES WASHINGTON
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(Received this day -at 2. 15 p.m.) (NEW 'YORK, August 23.
A raging hurricane leaving in its wake, 'distress at- sea, swept -'inland from Yirgini'a, Cape, • toward 1 Washing-' ton, bat promised to lose most of its intensity en 'route. ' V j The coastal liner Madisonv "U’ifh about one . hundred persons aboard; sent calls for help from twenty miles north east of Chesapeake'bight/ -Virginia. \ , -
Two coastguards vessels wei’fe- alongside and- all three were ‘hove .to;' The ; deckhouses of the 'ffladigon ; Vere : bro-• ken up by the storm and 'the coast-' guards suffered damage. * , 5 Many trees were uprooted in. residential sections of Washington, ;as . the storm began roaring in this, the; first tropical hurricane to reach Wash--ington since 1896/ Wireless operators at Baltimore pick- ■' ed a message from" Laurel; Delaware, which said Salisbury Marland I 'was iii/; serious condition and practically Wiped - but. '' A/- '' . 1 ■ : • 'r, i'
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 6
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156GREAT STORM Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 6
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