The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-11

San Juan de Porto Rico, Aug. 10.-A
at l o'clock Tuesday morning and
swept northwest. There was no abate
ment for nine hours, the greatest dam
age being done between and 10 o'clock
a. m. The wires were down and COM
munication with the interior was for a
time impossible. 1t is now chiefly car
ried on by couriers.
AT San Juan four natives were
drowned in the harbor: so houses were
demolished and hundreds were un-
rooted. The damage to property is es-
timated at 100000 Commssary stores
to the value of $4,000 were de-
stroyed.
dispatch 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 coast and
the city proper. The damage to the
port is estimated at s25O,O0o Two ma
tives are known to have been drowned
The records and the property of the
custom house are ruined and all the
vessels are ashore.
At Aibonito very little remains
standing except the cathedral and the
barracks. Four natives perished and
three United States soldiers were badly
injured AS the town is without pro-
visions, government relief has been dis
patched thither
Ell Caney was leveled to the ground,
200 houses being demolished Two
iDiI
there and many cavalry horses were
killed.
At Catano the entire plant of the
Standard Oil company was ruined.
The loss of the property is about
$200,0e
AT Bayamo a majority of the houses
We're destroyed and the rest were
flooded. Two hundred cattle were
killed and the railroad was seriously
damaged. The village Of Carolina was
literally razed. At Caguas four per-
sons were killed.
courier who has just arrived from
Humacao, capital of the province of
that name, on the eastern coast of the
island, reports awful destruction. The
loss to property is estimated at $500, ,0GO
but this is the least item in the dlsas-
ter. The courier brought an official re-
port from Captain Eben Swift of the
5th 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 privates of
troop c We're injured, two fatally Ser
geant King of the 18th infantry was
injured. North, a discharged private.
is missing. At the port of Humacoa
81 bodies have been recovered. Eight
hundred people are starving here
Three persons were killed at Las
Piedras and five at Junco. Couriers
from the other districts are anXiously
expected at the palace. The steamer
Slocum, Captain Thomas, en- route from
Mayaguese to San Juan, was caught in
the storm but her passengers and crew
were saved through the heroism of Mr..
Single, the first officer.
The coffee crop is ruined and the loss
will reach millions. Very great injury
has been done also to the orange crop.
No definite returns have yet been re-
ceived from the southern section of the
island, apart from Ponce.
1t is certain that the food supply in
the stricken districts has been de-
stroyed, and in these quarters the
quantity of government stores on hand
is small. Relief wagons will be sent
tomorrow in various directions.
Gen. George w. Davis the governor
general. has Cabled to the war depart
bent an appeal for assistance.