RIVERS IN FLOOD
HONDURAS DEATHS AND DAMAGE.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras), October 10. Official reports from a village thirty miles east of here, to-day said that nineteen persons were buried alive in a landslide which struck the village of Apolo'pi. The .reports said that portion of a hill descended upon the village, destroying many houses. In the same district, the Tholme River Hooded houses and plantations, drowning some people, and numerous cattle.
A dispatch from Paraiso district said that a river • there rose sixty leet above normal, . carrying the bodies of many human beings and cattle seaward. The dead, have not been estimated. All the foreigners are safe.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1933, Page 5
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