Port-au-Prince- As the death toll in hurricane-hit Haiti surpasses 875, tens of thousands are left homeless and outbreaks of cholera continue to claim more lives.Latest press reports from the impoverished Caribbean island nation on Saturday point to a trail of destruction sweeping the rural areas of southern and Western Haiti that were cut off by Hurricane Matthew until Friday

More than 175 people were reported killed in villages clustered among the hills and on the coast of the country’s fertile western tip.  Rural clinics overflowed with patients whose injuries, including broken bones, had not been treated since the storm struck the hemisphere’s poorest nation on Tuesday.

While a million people in the devastated southern regions of the country were in need of assistance following the destructive storm, Haiti’s capital and biggest city, Port-au-Prince, was mostly spared.

Aerial TV footage from the hardest-hit towns and villages showed a ruined landscape of metal shanties with roofs blown away and fallen trees everywhere.

A scene of anguish greeted visitors to Jeremie, a town of 30,000 people left inaccessible until Friday, according to an AFP report which added that virtually all of the town's corrugated-iron homes have been leveled with only a few concrete buildings left standing.

"It's probably the hardest hit department and the conditions don't allow for a helicopter to land there," said Haiti’s Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph as quoted in the report. "So we're doing our best to help those affected."

Meanwhile, a senator from the country’s severely-hit Sud department, Herve Fourcand, also stated that several localities were still cut off by flooding and mudslides.