Haiti swamped by tropical storm
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In this nation beset by violence, disease and environmental devastation, weary relief workers struggled yesterday to gauge the magnitude of the latest disaster
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With the death toll in Haiti by Tropical Storm Jeanne rising to more than 1,000 on Thursday, panic erupted in some disaster areas for fear of being unable to get food and water supplies, news from Haiti said.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691, with about 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.    Waterlines up to 10 feet high on Gonaives' buildings marked the worst of the storm that sent water gushing down denuded hills, destroying homes and crops in the Artibonite region that is Haiti's breadbasket...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - More than 300 people died  in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical  Storm Jeanne, according to aid workers who said half of the  northern city of Gonaives was still underwater.
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Flooding unleashed in Haiti by tropical storm Jeanne is feared to have killed more than 2,000 people.
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Rescuers pulled bodies from floodwaters yesterday that raged through parts of Haiti&#39;s third-largest city, sweeping people from their homes and driving survivors into trees, atop cars and onto rooftops after Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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The corn crop is flattened, rice paddies are washed away. Even the bitter oranges exported to make liqueur have become casualties of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which killed more than 1,500 people, delivered a hefty blow to Haiti's peasants and is raising fears of famine.
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Locals look at flood victims killed at the La Providence Hospital, in Gonaives, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2004, after floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne swept the town killing at least 620 people.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 573 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.    The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, according to Toussaint Kongo-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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Devastating floods in Haiti have claimed more than 700 lives and at least 1,000 people are missing. Tropical Storm Jeanne swept north of Haiti during the weekend, drenching the impoverished Caribbean nation
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 700 Tuesday, with about 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.    Waterlines up to 10 feet high on Gonaives' buildings marked the worst of the storm that sent water gushing down denuded hills, destroying homes and crops in the Artibonite region that is Haiti's breadbasket...
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Haiti began burying hundreds of flood victims in mass graves on Wednesday while emergency food was distributed to some of the thousands of people made homeless by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 622 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.    The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, according to Toussaint Kongo-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Workers dug new mass graves for corpses that still littered this flood-ravaged city Thursday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and residents grew increasingly agitated from a lack of food and drinkable water.    Health workers feared an epidemic from the unburied bodies, raw sewage in drinking water and infections from injuries...
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GONAIVES (Haiti) - The death toll from tropical storm Jeanne threatens to reach 2,000 as tens of thousands of survivors wait for food and water on rooftops where they are marooned by knee-deep moats of mud and sewage.
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Tropical Storm Noel dumped torrential rain on vulnerable Haiti on Monday, triggering fears of deadly flash floods and mudslides in the impoverished Caribbean country.
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The United Nations rushed hundreds more peacekeepers to storm-ravaged Gonaives to stem looting, while hundreds of weary Haitians lined up for food before daybreak Monday after spending a miserable night in the rain from Tropical Storm Jeanne.