Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Saturday 1 July 1933, page 1


HURRICANE IN

TRINIDAD.

Death and Destruction. SEVERAL DROWNINGS.

POUT OF SPAIN (Trinidad),

Thursday.

Scenes of death and destruction

wore described to-day aa repaired communication lines brought tho iirst reports from Southern Trinidad, telling how it had boen wrought by Tuesday night's hurricane. A howling storm lashed tho coast all Tuesday night.

It blow out yesterday, leaving fallen telegraph and telephone lines, unroofed houses and broken oiliield derricks. Several drownings were reported us

small boats foundered. A number of

people wcro injured when trees were uprooted. Tho hurricano was accompanied by torrential rains, which caused much damage in tho south-west, but reached their height, in tho south-west

around the Palorsco oil district.

ESCAPED CONVICTS.

Tho reign «of terror in tho Savinga district was nearing an end to-night ns tho polico scoured tho jungle in search of three escaped convicts, who havo been preying on small villages for six weeks. Gabriel Casillo, ono of the trio, was captured after a desperate linnd-to-hund struggle" with two policemen. Another, James Hinds, was found dead' with a wound over the

heart. Tho third is still at large.