Garland Globe | 1906-04-14 | Page 2 | Over One Hundred Lives Lost in Terrific Storm

Ier one hundred lives lost in terrific storm Hurricane Sweeps Over Tahiti and HBBJ Neighboring Islands, Causes Wide HBpJ apread Destruction. HH Honolulu. Tho steamer Moans, f JflHflJ which arrived hero Wednesdny, re- ABB ports thnt 121 persons were drowned HBpJ during tho hurrlcano which recently BH swept over Tahiti nnd tho neighboring BBBJ Islands. Of these victims ono per- BBB lahed on Tahiti, ninety-one natives BBB and four whites on the Poumotus and BBB twenty-four natives nnd one whlto on .the other Islands. Beforo the windstorm broko over H Papeete tho water rose steadily after a high tldo to twenty feet abovo tho normal mark nnd by 11 o'clock at night was wrecking wooden buildings and splashing between tho American and British consulates. At first no nlnrm was felt, but tho continuation of tho rlso caused a pan-Ic. pan-Ic. The wind blow in brief hurrlcano blasts every few minutes, tearing up trees nnd sending roofs Hying through tho White slgnnls for assistance were DBH seen In Papecto from Icblloc, a whlto DBl resident of Motuta Island, but It was HBl Impossible to render nny help until HJ morning, when the floating body of HJ his wifo was rescued from tho top of HBl a cocoanut palm. HBl Fears nro entertained for tho safety g, HB of the schooner Elmco, with soven per- BB sons on bonrd. HB Tho Dunrcggnn reports n hurrlcano HB south of tho loyalty Island on Feb- HB runry 7. Thursday Island experienced HB a hurrlcano on Feb. 22. IB