The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-06


ricane swept northwest over t
The city of Villa Duarte, IN
Bocachica, was reported en-
tirely destroyed. The city OF
Bocachia, one of the larger in
terror towns, was damaged
severely and the northern
road region as far as the
village of Bonao was a scene
of desolation and ruins.
Latest official estimates placed the
dead at 1000 and wounded at 5000.
THE arrival of medical and other
supplies on United States marine
planes from Port Au Prince, Halti'
did much to strengthen the morale
of the survivors, but they we're only
a small fraction of the emergency
materials needed to cope with the
situation. .
More Planes Are Expected
Airplanes with physicians and
more medical supplies, as well as
tents and clothing, were expected
today from Port Au Prince. Inc
marine officers said nurses had been
advised to stay behind, having been
warned by Dominican authorities
that conditions were too bad at
present to permit women to enter
the city.
Tragedy lay on every side. Bodies
were cremated by the hundreds on
funeral pyres, while grief-stricken
survivors raked the shambles OF
their dwellings for others, always
clinging to the slim hope that their
relatives might be found injured and
unconscious, rather than dead.
Captain Ford o. Rogers OF the
marines. who came here aboard one
of the planes, said he had never
seen anything comparable 10 the
sight" this city presented.
Describes GrewsOme Scenes
1.-THE stencil of burning bodies
reached my airplane at an altitude
of four thousand feet, forty miles
from Santo Domingo" he said, re-
ferring to the funeral pyres on
which the dead are being dis
posed Of.
'sThe cemetery was flooded with
bodies long dead, floating above the
ground.
"The village of Duarte, across the
river from Santo Domingo, re-
sembled a small village smeared TO
the ground with a steam roller"
Survivors in the village are I'M
able to communicate with the cap
ital because the bridge over the
river Ozama to Santo Domingo has
been destroyed. 1t is certain that
there are many dead in the VII
lage. who have not been counted
so far in the casualty estimates.
Frantic City Settles Down
The city, first stunned by the
s~uddenness of the tragedy and then
made frantic by suffering and grlef,
has settled stoically to the task OF
recovery.
What little supplies were spared by
the storm are being rationed strictly
by government officials.
President Rafael Trujillo issued a
decree placing president OF the
senate Mario Fermin Cabral IN
charge of cleaning the city and sub
urbs of the debris left in the
hurricanes path. Cabral was given
dictatory powers to carry out such
measures as he deemed necessary.
He Immediately organized a
service of field kitchens to distribute
food among the poorer classes. Civil
and military authorities were or
dered to cooperate with Cabral.
The relief workers also struggled
with the thousands whose homes
we're destroyed.
Diplomats Suffer Heavily
Since the condition of the harbor
made it impossible for the relief
ships to enter port, it is expected
that supplies will be landed in life
boats on San Geronimo beach, near
the capital.
Diplomatic representatives Of 9TH
err nations suffered heavily in the
storm, although it was believed that
n o Americans or Europeans had
been killed. The legations of the
United States, Venezuela, Holland,
Chile, Cuba. Norway, Colombia,
Uruguay and Haiti either were de-
stroyed or damaged.
Sanitary authorities, fearing the
peril Of fire in the ruins Of the city,
have ordered all fires extinguished
except those necessary for relief
work under the supervision Of mill
tary and civil officials.
The National City bankyof New
York branch offices re>oppned today.