GRAVE DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1933, Page 5

GRAVE DISASTER

'IN WEST INDIES MANY LIVES LOST. (Omted Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MEXICO CiTY, September 25. The first unofficial estimates from the city of Tampico, Mexico, on Monday night, reported that five thousand people had been killed “n Sunday night in the great ‘hurricane which devastated three-fourths of the city.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE. MEXICO CITY, September 26. The Mexican Secretary i’°r the Interior, Senor Edouard Vasconcelos, said that the number of the dead /through the hurricane, cannot he stated exactly. From Tampico City itself, the Military Chief of the district has reported by wireless that three-quarters of the city has .been destroyed, and that many are dead and injured. From the steamer Sapinaro there came an estimate of two hundred dead, with hundreds homeless, jjN APPALLING STORY. OF DEATH AND DAMAGE. MEXICO CITY, September 26. Reports from the site of a wrecked Tadio station, where a Pan-American aeroplane engine is now providing the power to work the radio, tell an appalling story of the damage in the city of Tampico. It has been wrecked by the hurricane. The hurricane, with a speed of 115 ■miie s an hour, occurred on Sunday evening, blowing itself out in an hour.

There is no confirmation of the prev.ious report that there are five thousand people dead, but the death roll

is a very, heavy one. Thousands of people were washed out of their homes. There are thousand of people missing, or lying under the ruins of the citv.

Three-quarters of Tampico has been destroyed. ,It is believed that this is the greatest disaster in recent Mexican history

EIGHTY-SEVEN PERSONS KILLED

THOUSANDS INJURED.

(Received this day at 9.35 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, Sep. 27. Five thousand are dead or injured, and thousands homeless, as the result of the hurricane which swept over Tampico liite on Sunday and Monday,causing enormous property damage. The city of Tampico was flooded and virtually isolated. The wind reached a velocity of 125 miles, per hour. The civil hospital, railway station and customs house were levelled, and nearly every other structure destroyed or unroofed. BROWNVILLE (Texas), Sep. 26. (Received this day at 9.35 a.m.) Eighty-seven persons were killed at Tampico on Sunday night when the civil hospital collapsed, according to wireless reports.