HURRICANE FURY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 5

HURRICANE FURY

; EASTERN U.S.A. SUFFERS HEAVILY SEVENTY-FIVE KILLED AND MANY INJURED HUGE TOTAL OF DAMAGE By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. NEW YORK, September 22. A West Indian hurricane struck the Atlantic seaboard today from New Jersey, leaving more than 75 persons dead and doing a hundred million dollars’ worth of damage. 5 Thirty persons on the Long Island 1 Sound ferry are missing. A 70-mile- - an-hour wind, with torrential rains, i flooded New York, chiefly Long Island, . endangering many populous communi- - ties. 1 Roads were destroyed in many 5 places and communication and power--3 lines are down. New York city’s electric supply lines were broken and the ’ central portion of the city was without light during the night. Many ’ radio’ stations are out of commission. 5 Hundreds were injured through col--1 lapsing buildings, objects tossed about by the floods and falling trees. There • were numerous fires v i Tidal waves struck Providence and : Boston, sweeping a thousand feet in- - land, and doing great damage. The f East River in New York inundated - the power plants, cutting off the subways. The liner Queen Mary has delayed , her sailing a day. i > WIDESPREAD DISASTER I DEATH ROLL HEAVILY INCREASED ; THREE THOUSAND VICTIMS , IN HOSPITAL (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 22. Deaths as' a result of the hurricane total 157. In New England the dead number 104. The south shore 'of Long Island was devastated and twelve were killed. Fire Island was smashed by a forty foot tidal wave, ''and ...two are dead. There was one death ’-in New Jersey, and one in New York. Fire followed the storm in several Connecticut, cities. Three thousand persons were taken to 'hospital and three thousand are homeless in the storm. A later message states that the most serious disaster in Long Island was at Westhampton, where eight are dead and fifty missing. A hundred summer cottages, owned by the wealthiest people were swept out to sea. At Lowell (Massachusetts) doctors removed a boy’s eye by candlelight when electric power failed.