Storm causes massive forest damage, widespread flooding and coastal damage. Over 600 deaths attributed to storm. It was the worst storm in nearly two centuries, equal in strength to the 1938 hurricane. Afternoon thunderstorms in drop inch-diameter hail on Pinckney, Michigan, and wind gusts to 68 mph at Wyandotte. Another thunderstorm in northern Indiana produces wet snow at South Bend.
Typhoon winds fan fires set by quake.
143,000 die in the multi-disaster. 318 die in seven countries. Atlantic Hurricane Irene crosses Nicaragua to reform in the eastern Pacific as Hurricane Olivia. A shipping armada in the harbour about to go into battle is destroyed by the waterspout killing at least 600 people. A vicious Spring cold snap brings snow, hail, thunderstorms and gales to the North Island.