Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-11
STORM VICTIMS BY HUNDREDS
Ponce Practically Wrecked and Flooded
as the Result Of a Hurricane.

LAND Or NUM- SEhftAl LEV 40.
TATED, CHURCHES AND VII
Lagos BEING DESTROYED
AND NEARLY 100 PERSONS
KILLED-GREAT DANA G E
THROUGHOUT THE WEST IN
DIES.
| PONCE, August 10.-A hurricane
struck here at o'clock Tuesday morn
ing and lasted until 3 p. m. The river
is overlooked, flooding the town. 1t is
, estimated that 200 persons were drown
ed. The town and port are total
wrecks. 1t is believed the damage
done will amount to over 100000. No
news has been received from the inter-
ior since the storm broke.
! KINGSTON, ia, August 10.-Turks
Island reports that the cyclone passed
during the night, after doing trifling
damage. The center of the disturb
ance is apparently progressing north
ward toward the American coast.
ST. THOMAS, D. w. l., August TO-
| The island of Monserrat, British West
Indies, was devastated by a hurricane
on Monday. All the churches, estates
and villages were destroyed and near
(, ly 100 persons killed. In addition
| many were injured and rendered
homeless, and terrible distress exists
among the sufferers.
PARIS, August 10.-Advices from
La Pointe-a-pitre. Island of Guadeioupe
! say that the cyclone did enormous dam
age in the interior of that island. a
number of coffee and cocoa estates be-
ing devastated. LIE Mourie, a suburb,
was half destroyed. There were num-
Der of fatalities.
| St Jean advices say that the cyclone
caused a great destruction in Porto
Rico, whence it passed northward to
Dominica and thence to Cape Haitien
and the eastern end of Cuba.
SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO. Au-
gust 10.-A hurricane broke over the
south coast at l O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing and swept northwest. There was
no abatement for nine hours, the great
est damage being done between eight
and ten O'Clock a. m. The wires were
down and communication with the in
terror was for time impossible. 1t is
now chiefly carried on by couriers. At
! San Juan four natives were drowned in
the harbor; eighty houses were demol-
ished and hundreds were unroofed The
damage to property is estimated at
100000. Commissary stores to the
value of $4,000 were destroyed.
A despatch by cable from Ponce sent
at 10 O'Clock this morning, says the
town was almost destroyed. Almost all
| the frame buildings are down. The
bridge is swept away, and there is no
communication between the port and
the city proper. Two natives are
cords and property of the custom house
are ruined, and all the vessels are ashore.
| At Aibonite very little remains stand
ing except the Cathedral and the bar
racks. Four natives persisted and three
United States soldiers were badly in
| jured. AS the town is without food,
| \
thither.
Ell Cayey was leveled to the ground,
200 houses being demolished. Two
, United States soldiers were injured
there and many cavalry horses we're
| killed. At Catano, the entire plant of
| the Standard Oil Company was ruined.
The loss on the property is 100000.
| At Bayamon a majority of the hous-
es were destroyed and the rest were
! flooded Two hundred head of cattle
were killed and the railway was serious
| ly damaged.
The village of Carolina was literally
| razed. At Caguas four persons were
killed
A courier who has just arrived from
| Humacao, capital of the province of
| that name, on the eastern coast OF the
island, reports awful destruction there.
| The loss to property is estimated at
| 100000, but this is the least item in
| the disaster The courier brought an
official report from Captain Eben Swift,
of the Fifth United States cavalry, who
! says: "Humacoa was totally destroyed
| by the hurricane. Forty-six bodies
have been recovered and there are
many more in the debris. Eight pri-
Yates of Troop c were injured, two IA
tally. Sergeant King, of the Eleventh
| infantry. was injured. North, dis
! charged private, is missing. At the
port of Humacoa eighteen bodies have
| been recovered. Eight hundred people
| are starving here"
! Three persons were killed at Las Pie
dras and five at Junco.
Couriers from the other districts are
anxiously expected at the palace. The
| steamer Slocum, Captain Thomas, en-
routa from MayapIJez tn San Juan was