Some sort of horrible translation and an incompetent reporter.
The Island is still there, and there are not 26,000 dead people on it, despite the deranged rantings of Lies66666..
Source ?
Please cite your evidence that the initial reports are incorrect. I hope it is not true, but I would not be surprised if it was true. Mass deaths from storms do occur.
Oct. 10–16, 1780. Barbados, West Indies: “The Great Hurricane of 1780” killed 20,000–22,000 people and completely flattened the islands of Barbados, Martinique, and St. Eustatius; is the deadliest western hemisphere hurricane on record.
Oct. 26–Nov. 4, 1998. Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala: “Mitch” killed more than 11,000 people, becoming the deadliest Atlantic storm in 200 years. Two to three million people were left homeless; damages were more than $5 billion.
Sept. 8, 1990. Galveston, Tex.: an estimated 6,000–8,000 died in hurricane and tidal surge. The “Galveston Hurricane” is considered the deadliest in U.S. history.
April 30, 1991. Southeast Bangladesh: cyclone killed over 131,000 and left as many as 9 million homeless. Thousands of survivors died from hunger and water-borne disease.
Nov. 12–13, 1970. East Pakistan: cyclone and tidal waves killed 200,000 and another 100,000 were reported missing.