The Archive · 1938

First Pictures of Hurricane on American Coast

These pictures, transmitted from New York to San Francisco by sound-photo, are the first to be received in Shanghai showing the damage done by the hurricane which swept the east coast of America.

Upper shows wrecked yachts and ships along the waterfront at New London, Connecticut, when the 100-miles-an-hour wind swept from. the south resulting in a death roll of more than 500. Below, a collapsed bridge at Hampton, Long Island, with q motor car hanging over the gap.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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