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


| The Hurricane in The West Indies.
| The Steamer Moro Castle, which reached
| New York from Havana after tempestuous
voyage on Sunday evening, brought full de-
tails of the great hurricane of the eth and Sth
instants. The total number of lives lost is
estimated at 1000, though one correspondent
thinks that half that number would be nearer
the truth. The force of the tornado seems to
have been spent in the country nearer Carde-
mas than Matanzas, though the latter place
| suffered more than the former. In both
cases the damage was doue principally by
water. 1900, head of cattle were lost, and
in Mantanzas alone 400 houses were dertroy-
ed. The damage to property is estimated at
five millions of dollars. Seven hundred and
fifty street lamps were washed away. The
stock Of sugar and molasses in the ware
houses was very small, and the loss trivial.
The principal loss is in dwellings. ware
houses, boats, lighters, &c. The bridge of
Baiten, magnificent structure over San
Juan, and not far from its mouth, costing
more than one million dollars, was destroyed.
The bridge over the Yumert, leading to Yer
sailles, was also washed away. A passenger
train arrived at the depot of the Havana and
Matanzas Railroad just before the overflow
took place. The depot, engine, train, pas
sengers and employees all disappeared in the
food. 4 letter from a Matanzas merchant
states that 49, dead bodies had been found
and buried, and that 500 missing persons
were accounted for. The inundation of the
Pueblo Nuevo Ward, bounded by the bav,
the San Juan and Yumuri rivers, brought
death to the door of every family within its
limits.
Cardenas Is next to Matanzas in its losses
and disasters from the storm. Several houses
were brought TO the ground, many more
were unrOOied or otherwise injured, the trees
everywhere were uprOoted and blown down,
and the fire wharves and warehouses, the
pride of the city and fountains of its wealth,
were extensively damaged. The large and
costly warehouses of Pena & Medina, Of p.
II. Fernandez, of SOler & CO., and Of Can
terra, are to-day only heap of ruins, the
large quantities Of sugar and molasses stored
in them are almost total losses, while some
ten of the other fine warehouses are partially
in ruins. Seven lives were lost in the city
from the storm, and in the bay eleven. OIL
thirteen vessels in port four were lost-the
Spanish barque NJ. E. captain and five sail
ors drowned5, the Spanish schoonens Rosita
and Flor del Palacio, and American schooner
Valeria; two were beached but will be got |
ten of safely-the German baraue Cardenas
and British barque Speedway; and three
were dismasted.
In Nueva Paz, l16 houses, mostly of wood
and OF small dimensions, we're changed in |
few hours to heaps of ruins; in Madruca,
100; in Guines, 6S (church tower also down.: |
in Alacranes, so; in Bejucal, 40; and SO on. |
each place having suffered more or less. The |
loss of lives in those villages, providentiallv,
was small, considering the extent Of the ma
terial damages experienced, and will not ex-
coed twelve persons, all told. The storm
was felt but slightly east Of Sierra Morena,
and not at all east Sagua. In Colon, the in
juries done were few and insignificant, and
the same may be said for Villa Clara, Glen
fuegos and the Island of Pines. Westward
no harm was done few miles beyond Ha-
vana,, the Vuelta Abajo not being embraced
in the storms travels. The districts of Ma
tanzas, Cardenas, Jarucos, Guines, GUIANA
bacoa, Santa Maria, Bejucal, Santiago de las
Vegas and Colon ltwo-thirds) are the ones TO
which the storm seems to have confined its
devastations.
The growing cane was generally prostrated.
and its final yield probably thereby reduced
one-third or more, which means from 800
600 to 400, 600 boxes of sugar less in the
coming crop. In the districts of Guines.
Bejucal and Santiago las Vegas a good deal
of rice is raised every year, but reports agree
in saying that the storm has about DESTROYED
their rice crop for this year. Another SEN
sible though not heavy loss is the general
of the banana fields. the larger