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Floods FearedIn The Wake OfViolent RainMIAMI, Fla., Aug. 18. lt;/P— Kingston, capital of the British West Indian island of Jamaica, counted upward of 25 dead and $16,800,000 in property damage in the wake of the tropical hurricane toil i g ht.Rainfall in the violent storm to-aled 17 inches in a Uttle over five lours during Friday night. This, ttorm warning headquarters at Mi*imi stated, “inevitably meanslooda in the mountain valleys out-lide of Kingston.It is impossible to have so tor-'ential a rain without floods in amountainous country,” storm fore*rasters here said.An airliner of Avianca. Inc., landed briefly at Kingston's Palisades Airport and reported the hangar ind other installation* flattened.“City of Kingston also pretty badly banged up. said the pilot, Capt. O. W. Brocksom.Several ships were reported sunk at Kingston, a city of U0.OOO persons.At S pm., the hurricane was reported centered just south of Grand Cayman Island, some 200 miles west of Jamaica and 420 miles due south of Key West. Fla, It had slowed Its forward pace and was traveling at about 15 miles sn hour toward the Yucatan channel between Cuba anu Mexico.Communication with the interior was cut, and no report* were avail-homeless and without lights, pow-able early today on damage outside the immediate area of the capital.Many persons in thaw are* wereSee HURRICANE. *g. 4. Col 2
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 19, 1951
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