Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-21

in it's path a trail of deso1ation and misery from which it will be slow, and in a sense impossible, to recover if out side help-prompt and aTnpEe-be not obtained.
 St. Thomas-the pretty little town which we knew and on which strang- CTS gaZed with deIight-is, at least for the present and probably for a long time to come, a changed place. The sun is shining as brightly as ever again today but over a scene of much ruin and many broken hearts.
 To best convey an idea of the dam age it should rather be mentioned that hardly a house has escaped untouch- ed A few got slight damages, but the greater part have been more or less seriously damaged. a number being totally destroyed, in many cases those left standing being beyond repair or beyond the means of their owners to have them repaired.
 The storm ragged for hours and with an intensity which may be judged by readers abroad from the fearfully low barometer which fell ,o 2S.10, some say even as low as 2S.02. The tre- mendous gusts of wind, striking like battering rams upon the houses, and which during the Hull seemed by it's renewed fury to have increased it's driving force, left no doubt among the helpless mortals shut in in their ilOHlSS O1 WIldl udNOC lu0 dIlSTy 6lG- ments were working. But none ever expected to behold what met his eyes when morning dawned. Devastation and desolation all around, an aspect such as one may picture somewhat as from a bombardment. Damaged or fallen houses everywhere, debris scat tered broadcast. Almost every tree blown away. the few lert standing be- ing broken down or stripped. The handsome field giants are nearly all standing but terribly mutilated. The hoary beauties of the parks are most ly, memories now. the uptown one be- ing a WreSc and the Emancipation Garden ,lot much better. Those along the pier pI.onlmenade are either dead or disfigured. Skipping from here to the cemeteries we find a tangle of big broken trees which in falling damaged tombs. The great tamarind and kNnep trees that adorned the market square and vicinity are most or them lying uprooted across the street, huddled to- gether with bent and broken iron and wood, electric, telegraph and telephone posts and wires, which have been laid low all about.
 A survey of the town from some height and a ewalk through all it's streets and byways tell the same sad tale and reveal the same picture on all sides-houses unroofed, roof cov- ering gone, interiors damaged by rain. | overturned, smashed to pieces, furni- ture and personal effects mixed up in the ruins, homeless ones. and son on. The churches have not fared too badly, being stronger and mostly of wall, but the rectories have all been damaged, the Moravian and Wesleyan badly The old Methodist chapel is gone. The roof of Talitha Ku1ni and Bakkedal damaged, the Synagogue al- so. The factory machine ship was washed into by the sea- Communal Hospital damaged, and countless other places. The state of the houses has made other less distressed ones offer shelter to friends or needy ones, while some families have had to remove to hotels.
 The loss in '67 occurred in rich times but now, in this miserable war period made worse by the scarcity of work money. and dearness of all necessaries and materials, the hurricane is a catastrophe.