IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8293, 23 November 1906, Page 7

IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

AWFUL STORIES OP DEATH AND DISASTER. Mail Steamer Ventura.) SAN SALVADOR, Ootober 19. A tempest Has raged incessantly for ten days throughout the Republic, flooding the rich valleys— principally that of Majada—•and resulting in great loss of life and destruction of cattle and orops. The San Salvador man of war Kizaioo was lost at Aeajutia. The topography of various departments has been changed; build'ngs have fallen, burying their tenants in ruins; and\iron bridges over the principal rivers have been carried away. Upwards of fifteen million tons of water has fallen. Aqueducts and eleotrio light plants at Sonsonate and San Salvador have suffered heavy losses. To-day the storm is abating. Railroads, telegraphs, and commerce are paralysed, but traffic is being resumed in some towns of the Republic. The water mains at some places have disappeared. The rivers are bringing down the bodies of persons drowned in the atoim and carcases of oattle, and the sight of these tend to increase the terror of the yeople. The losses are incalculable. The Government has issued orders that assistance be given the victims uf the storm. Gantemalu and Honduras have also suffered severely. It is said the losses there will amount to many millions of dollars. MOBILE (ALA.). Ootober 22. The first news of a terrible West Indian hurricane that visited the town of Ruatan, I'elo, Utlla, Colorado, and El, Froenee, Honduras, on October 12th, was brought Here by the Norwelgan steamer Herald. A number of vessels were wrecked and several destroyed, and buildings in each town mentioned, were badly damaged. The loss to owners of fruit plantations will, it is stated, reach almost a million dollars. The British snhooner Southern Queen was thrown on the beach at Ruatan, and went to pieces in less than an houi. The Harald suffered somewhat, and will have to be docked. A tidal wave accompanied fcho hurrioane, and swept everything before i*. Captain Henrichsen reports that when he left the beaobes were strewn with vessels of all kinds, including thiee large sailing vessels. No lives were reported lost at the time o? the sailing of the Harald. Ten thousand bunohes of bananas were reported to have been swept into the sea at Ruatan. The offi- . oers of the steamer say it will be a month before some of the steamers will be able to get sny fruit.