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IN RUINS.
DISASTROUS CYCLONE IN
PARAGUAY.
OVER 100 DEAD.
Buenos Aires, Sept. 21. A cyclone swept over Encarnac ion, in Paraguay, which is practi- ically in ruins:
COBHAM'S FLIGHT.
VERY STORMY WEATHER AT ALLAHABAR
MACHINE BEACHED,
Rugby, Sept. 31. Mr. Alan Cobham arrived at Allahabad to-day in very stormy weather. Owing to the force of the current the. Hooded river Nearly all the houses collapsed. Jamna, he did est adcceed in tying There are over a hundred persons his machine, un to poor. After 'dead.
many efforts he finally beached the
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The damage is estimated at mil-machine. lions of dollars.-Rector's American Service
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FATE OF RESIDENTS OF FLORIDA,
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PLANE CRASH.
FATE OF THE FONCK
VENTURE..
New York, Sept. 21. Captain Rene Fonek started on his trans-Atlantic flight, but hi machine crashed amidst flames. It believed thus two were killed. Beck escaped.
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New York, Sept. 21. Florida is still partially isolated and a connected account of the typhoon as to extent is still lack- Hing, but it is clear that it struck
with sleeping towns.
bomlike severity bringing in its wake series of gigantic werves. Hundreds were drowned in their beds. [the houses enflapsed the burricane Frushed erratically to and from across the Peninsula and attained a speed of 120, les an hour.
At Fort Lauderdale drowning ing gear, which was to be dropped acapunted for the majority of the in the ocean when the machine was Fonck declares that deaths, though many ware killed under way. by flying debris,
Many of thethe knew the wheel had collapsed, smaller buildings were blown over but he was unable either to stop or bowled a considerable distance for rise
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Notice is accordingly hereby Holes were cut to liberate the bat-wheeled on the right wing. Petrol the Final Call is postponed to 15th. Thereafter the aeroplane cart-given that the date for payment of tered occupants. One woman, whose home was blown down, poured over the exhaust pipes and day of December, 1926, and that the Form of Bankers Receipt sheltered four others sil of whom united
already sent to Shareholders can [collapsed successively,
be used as though the date named therein were 15th. December 1926. FOR THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.,
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A second Thus in a few moments ended an woman tied three children round enterprise of several months on her. Two were drowned and she which a considerable sum of money cut them adrift in order to save had been expended." the third. Refugees are in a pit Curth leaped clear from the uble condition and are pouring in lazing machine with Fonck
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to the relief stations from roads the Russia" mechanic and the leading to West Palm Beach which French wireless operator Clavier, is jammed with terror-stricken were trapped in the fuselage and pedestrians.
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incinerated There is serious danger of a
The plane's weight exceeded shorluge of food and drink. Water 28,000 lbs. Apparently it was over is being rationed and bread linea loaded and when it leaped into air are being formed.
at the end of three-quarters of 'd An aeroplane flew over Clewiston, mile runaway, it plunged nose fore- where there is no sign of life except most and crashed over the embark for a small group collected on the men.
A cloud of, black smoke roof of the only building standing, arose which was followed by the
Rescuers are working heroically machine bursting into flames. Parties on horseback are rescuing The second aeroplane circling the stranded. President Coolidge) overhead sounded the siren fire' broadcast an appeal for subscrip- alarm, which brought the fre Itions. Private individuals have brigade on the scene within ten chartered a special train to convey minutes, but it was too late to save doctors, nurses and food.-Reuter's the mechanic and wireless opera
Thousands witnessed the start. New York, Sept. 21. but the intense heat of the burning The hurricane last night isolated aeroplane kept the people at 40 ft. Pensacola and Mobile, and swept distance. Women spectators faint- toward other points on the coasted and shrieked-Reuter's Ameri- of the Gulf of Mexico and inland can Service. over Southern Alabama and the Mississippi.
Amurican Servico.
Utter Wreckage.,
The radio operator at Mobile has estimated that half a million dollars damage has already been done there.
Reports from the stricken Florida!
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The big hotels at Miami Beach opened their doors to the populace for refuge when the storm broke, thereby greatly reducing casualties.
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