The Archive · 1928

Whole Commune Destroyed

Paris, Sept. 17.

Ofticiat accounts of the devasta-

A little ie! was killed and a seriously injured in the img ovt 7 the country-schoo! at Later ion wrought by the cyclone in the Antilles show that 28 persons we killed in the commune of Petitbourg, which was completely destroyed by a tidal wave, Pointe Apitre also was devastated and the suburbs wiped out, resulting in a death-roll of 300, while over 100 perished in brondeasted other. communes. Many factories Jand sugar refineries were damaged and the crops injured.

Official reports concerning the havoc done by the cyclone in the French colonies in the Antilles '(West Indies) show that seven small reported]

have been killed and Sevres inured a torsade which swent throuch Nebraska, Hlinnis, Wisecnsia on Thursday and Friday. The damage, dono is estimated to Sept. 16.

A special train with, doctors and nuvses_ on board is. Speeding to Xebraska, where a county-school filled with pupils has been destroyed fuy a tornado, two of which raged in arts of Nebraska and South Dakota ro 34sterday. Eleven persons are! schooners and fifteen native craft were destroyed by a tidal wave in Martinique while the roads through out Guadeloupe are blacked by fallen trees and all communications wrecked. The hospital at St. Claude limest destroyed by the tempest and six persons were killed—Reuter. London, Sept. 17.

'The meagre, incomplete reports of the hurricane' still prevent an appraisement of the extent of the disaster. ween people are reported to have been drowned at Okeechobee in Florida,

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