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130 MPH Hurricane Heads for Tampico; 115 DeadTAMPICto, Mexico (II.R) -- A 13 Q - rri lie- on-hour hurricane cut across the Gulf of Mexico toward this rich pott today.Officials feared loss of Jtfe might be great in outlying areas \yhere poor commun tea lions prevented the warning of natives living in flimsy bamboo and palm-thalchcd huts.Hundreds of city residents sought shelter in churches and public buildings,The U, S. weather bureau reported that at 0 a.m. the storm which has kJled 115 .persons in Jamaica Island and the Yucatan peninsula was 240 miles off the :oust and driving west at about [4-miEes-an-hour.f -5 :r . •■WThe big blow with hurricane j tropicai hurricanes, were not ap-! Jamaica, which was hit bv the inds extending 7 3 miles in the; prehensive, but the Naval Air'storm Friday night. But it waswnorthern semi-circle was expected to hit the Nantla-Tuxpan area south of here between 7 and 10 p.m. EDT with hurricane winds as far north as this city.Squalls and heavy seas'were expected .to extend to the lower codst of Texas and small craft were alerted to “remain in port until all danger had passed.” Weatherman at ^Brownsville, Tex., 250 miles northeast of Tam-picct’s lush banana plantations and rich oil fields, said the hurricane might have ‘'fringe effects” on south Texas,Costal residents of Texas, veterans at “sweating out” fickleStation at Corpus Christi look no chances by flying 22 planes inland to Waco.The hurricane brushed Merida, in Yucatan Province, yesterday, driving hundreds from their homes in the surrounding area.Merida itself missed the full force of the storm, recording only winds of 70-miles-an-hour.As the storm left the Caribbean Sea earlier yesterday it lashed the island of Cozumel, off the east coast of Yucatan. One *man was killed on the Yucatan Peninsula.Partial electric service was restored to Kingston, capital oflt;;iirationed to hospitals, refrigerating plants, pumping stations and newspaper plants.Jamaica authorities fixed storm damage conservatively at £50.000,-000.Between 70 and 80 per eent of Jamaica’s banana crop, a major source of income, was destroyed and about 30 per cent of the island's other crops was ruined.Hock slides caused by the storm, choked Jamaica’s streets, islands and railways, dealing a sharp blow to the flourishing tourist trade.Thousands of homeless persons bedded down in churches and other available buildings. A group of 20 young American Quakers whose camp was destroyed were housed temporarily at Mico College in Nnrlh Kingston.KILLER” STORM ■ . , Victims of Ihe fierce hurricane that swept the Caribbean island * u? 0Vet ?! ?omen'B barracks «* Governmenl Poorhouse in Kings Whomeless, YACMY?ELEp1iOTO) P*rsons *r® dead wltH hundreds in^od and ihousand*Now Pay Your P.6.E* Bills, also Castro Valley Sani tary District Bills—or-WISHART’SRedwood Pharmacy_»AViS SHOPPING CENTER^ Redwood - ’Ar • Laurel FREE PARING OPEN ‘TIL 9 P.M. LU. 2-1711 LO. T-3741
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Daily Review
Hayward, California, US
Tue, Aug 21, 1951
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