The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-03

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Cuba Overwheloea By . Terrible
Fled.
From the New York worid.
HORRIBLE STORM.
With the lull q thO stosm nd. partial
change Of the Wind the watefs Of he by At
once retired from the city and subufh, and
the two rivers, transformed into torrents,
we're enabled once Doce to discharge their
superabuDdance where they had ben wont
10. The rapid fow towards the bay, how
ever, impaired to the waters SO much cur
rent and force that, in their ebbing from the
inundated wards and suburbs, they wrecked
many more houses dragging to watery graves
many more persons Building, and parts
and fragments Of buildings, furniture, trees,
goods, and bodies innumerable, Of man and
beast, of fish and fowl, were for several
hours borne by the retiring food to the bay,
there to be only in small proportions recov-
cred. When the waters were gone sad, des-
olating sight was indeed presented by the
scourging wards and suburbs. As stated at
the beginning Of this letter, nearly 400 houses
were swept away, with all their contents
count-ninety Of stone and brick and 301
VI WOUutS duu IIOIC 1OV OSIICh
houses were more or less injured. Some of
the buildings swept away were very costly
ones, including nearly all the fine warehouses
on the levee and the lower hanks of the San
Juan and the Yumuri, not one of which but
had boxes of sugar any hogsheads of molas-
ses in storage, the whole Of which was also
lost In lives stated at the commencement
the losses would exceed 900. There are
1 ,.,b.,l, 81 60
and others that raise it to 1900. / find a
states that 49, dead bodies had been found
and buried, and that 500 missing persons
were accounted for. The most prominent
man drowned was the rich merchant, Pedro
Benet. Not single American is among the
victims. The brute creation naturally Jared
worse than the man in the inundated wards
and suburbs, and the number of horses, cat
tie, hogs, dogs, &c, drowned is very great.
In the Two wards of Pueblo NuevO and OjO
de Aqua only one horse was saved, and he
in truth saved himself, being found, aiter the
waters were gone, upon the roof Of . house,
to which place Of refuge he had made his
way whilst the waters were at their greatest
height. No pecuniary estimates of the losses
within the city have as vet been made tina,
can pass for reliable. The letter quoted from
affirms they will exceed $, 900, 900.
INCIDENTS OF THE HURRICANE.
There were many incidents Of the storm
and disasters that deserve mention. The
railway train that left Havana at 2:4O p. m.
Of the eth was prevented by the storm from
reaching Matanzas before midnight. The
station is located in one of the suburbs, q
mile or more from the heart of the city, and
goes by the name OF San Luis Station. Be
cause of the heavy rains, only four or five OF
the passengers made their way to the city,
the balance preferring to remain in the sta
ton until morning rather than breast the
awfully inclement weather. Their election
was a most fatal one. The four or FIVE who
marched to the city are to-day alive, but OF
the thirty who remained behind all are dead
but one. The station and suburb were the first
places inundated, and badly inundated, the
waters rising there to fourteen feet. All the
houses of the suburb, built of wood, and
nearly all inhabited by the employees of the
railroad company and their families, and by
the company's Cinnamon and negroes and
their families, were swept away. The rail-
way sheds and offices, cars, and locomotives,
then shared the same fate, and finally the
station building itself-in which over hun
dred human beings has assembled for shelter
against the storm-alsO gave way, only the
front wall and part of the left-side wall re-
manning. The fof one of the swept-away
houses caught against these walls, and upon
this roof some forty persons managed to
climb from the station, and for while save
themselves from watery graves. l say for a
while, for when the waters from the bay re-
coded, and those from the two rivers sought
their usual outlets, the current formed bore
away the remaining walls, and the roof
started for the bay. This was near a. m,
and the ''frail craft" with its human freight
was clearly seen by many on shore moving
fast on its
| SHORT VOYAGE To DESTRUCTION;
but nothing could lie done to aid or save.
Many of those on board shouted loud for
assistance, but none came, and in despair,
once the lay reached, knelt down and prayed,
and it was whilst in the &c: Of supplication to
the Almighty for safety in this world or
| mercy in the next, that a large wave struck
the floating roof, shattered it to pieces and
precipitated its forty unwilling passengers
into the water. A few minutes more and
thirty-nine beings, lately full of life and hope,
were added to the long list of those drowned
Only one escaped-One of those thirty pas
sengers from Havana who unwillingly re-
manned in the station building-and he was
saved by one of the American vessels in port,
Of the one hundred and fifty inhabitants in
the suburb on the evening of the 9TH, not ten
are to-day alive.
When the waters first flooded Pueblo
Nuevo, gentleman residing in wooden
house resolved to remove his family-cOn-
sisting of himself, wife, seven children and a
negro female servant-tO the twO-story stone
dwelling of friend, and taking his two
youngest children in his arms, started, fol-
lowed by his wife having two of the children,
the servant bringing up the rear with the
three Oldest children. The gentleman and
his wife, together with the four children
they had with them, reached the house of
the friend, but, to their horror, found the
servant and the three other children missing,
and they are still missing, having no dOub;
been drowned by the flood. Another gen.
tleman, employed upon a sugar estate of the
district, with great difficulty managed to
reach Matanzas on the 9th, to see as to the
safety of his wife, four children and house,
and tnrln1 all uope-oll Syar,f into icSs