Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-05
CYCLONE In CUBA.
Over a Thousand Lives Destroyed
in TWenty-FOur Hours.
Property and Crops Worth Many
Millions Swept Away.

The AuiSddOr Commercial of Havana has
ssued a special supplement giving details OF
The recent cyclone in Cuba From this the
following is taken: a cyclone has spread it
olackened wings over this unfortunate land
and swept the island Its disastrous eff
,ects were felt from Point Maisi to
Cape San Antonio, the whole length o.
Cuba Its greatest violence was exercised
N the Province of Santa Clara Telegram
regarding this sorrowful event were sent e
the Captain-General of the island, who i'm
mediately authorized the highest officials tC
form board to consider measures for ailay
ing the misery caused, and put at their dis
Dosal $40, 000
This cyclone was as disastrous as that which
occurred in 1888. Commencing late in the
afternoon, it reached its greatest intensity al
midnight, and lasted until 3 o'clock on the
morning of the next day, when the barometei
commenced to rise. There was great dea
Of damage done in Havana
The shipping suffered greatly, and the
gunboat Jorge Juan lost two of her crew.
Some of the metallic roofing of the Theatra
Payret was torn off. Trees were uprooted
and lamp posts destroyed.
Telegraphic communication was interrupt
ed for upward of fifteen days, the railway
lines were also interferred with, and commu-
nication between Sagua and Havana by rail
was cut off for six DAYS.
The cane fields have suffered great damage.
1t is the opinion of those we'll verSed in the
matter that the damage will amount to 25
3Oper cent Not single banana plant re
mains.
At the port of Batabano nine sailors were
drowned by the laundering of the Spanish
gunboat Lealtad Trees were torn up roofs
were torn off and the violence of the hurri-
cane was gre at. The schooner Suarez, which
had made the port the previous day, was
completely wrecked and several of the crew
were lost. The schooner Alphonso XII was
driven entirely out of the water and literally
fhac Voc A,.%N vr1afe
similar fate, having been blown into Pavia
street, where she still remains high and dry
The schooner Almirante disappeared com
pletely. Nothing is known of the fate of the
crew. There were many accidents caused
by falling buildings resulting IN broken legs
and arms. In Cardenas the waves of the
sea swept into Hector street. Many
families abandoned their houses owing
properly so-called, commenced early
in the morning of Wednesday. Of the
1926 houses in Sagua, scarcely twenty es-
capped damage; $6OOO,O0O worth of property
was destroyed. The desolation and ruin are
complete. The picture is dark-much darker
than any pen can make it, however sad and
truthful the lines. In Isabella thirty-four
bodies were found on the beach. The over
flow of the river caused great damage there.
The beach was covered with dead fish, and
many cattle were drowned by the flood. The
latte are producing fearful odors.
The correspondent at Caibarien says:
iren; the schooner Emanuel, four
sailors and three passengers; the Union, two
sailors. Mr.. Cordova, his wife and five chill
1ren were lost. 1t is believed that the num-
Der of deaths at this point was over seventy.
There was an extraordinary rise of the river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jose Crespo saw three of their
children swept away by terrific wave.
twenty-five houses were blown down and
orty-eight received serious damage. All
over the city there is much damage.
At Cardenas alone property destroyed
Or damaged to the extent of 81 200, 00O and
he deaths amounted to over 100
WomeI and children, sometimes entire
amilieS persisted by the dozen. Two mothers
we're drowned trying to rescue their little
mes. Others endeavoring to save life we're
llso drowned. Among the dead recovered at
he La Isabella de Sagna was a mother with
Ter two children still firmly clasped in her
Lrms. In this situation the bodies were buried.
The total number of deaths from the cyclone
throughout the island is estimated at up
ward of one thousand. The vortex of the |
yclone entered the Island near Sagua cross |
ng between Havana and Batabano and !
through Consolation del Sur leaving Cuba |
or Vera Cruz. A popularity of this cyclone |
vas its southwark tendency,