Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-25
HAVANA WAS SWEPT BY A cy.
CLONE OF UNPRECEDENTED
SEVERITY.
DAMAGE s., 600, 600
The Damage to the American Squad
ron Was Small-Bad Night
for Soldiers and
Marines.

Havana, Cuba-A cyclone of I'M
precedented severity, accompanied by
terrific downpour of rain, swept yer
the provinces of Havana and Pinar
del Rio Wednesday night, and result
ed in 20 deaths in this city and the
serious injury of a dozen or more per-
sons. The damage is estimated at
fully $4,000, 600. Tho. dead are all
Cubans of the poorer class.
The storm caused great havoc and
confusion in the shipping in the har-
Dor. Many buildings were badly dam
aged, and nearly all the trees in the
city and suburbs were uprooted.
At Camp Columbia.
The 1000 American soldiers and
marines at Camp Columbia were put
to great inconvenience. Nearly all
the 400 tents in camp were blown
down, but there was little actual dam
age. Harry Rosdick, an army team
ster with the Twenty-eighth infantry,
from Sioux City, Ia, sustained prob
ably fatal injuries. He was crushed
by a tree which fell through the bar
racks in which he was sleeping. Fred
Sutcliffe, of Fort Smelling, had his
head seriously injured, and Thomas
Chonealt, of Reading Pa, sustained
injuries to his back.
The Damage in Havana.
In Havana city about fifty houses
uyara MORA ~ Jauc don,oUod h,It ruy
ing to the massive construction o.
roofs and walls, the damage is serious
only in a few instances. The build
ings of the University of Havana II
tanned damages amounting to many
thousands Of dollars. A partition wal
in the American legation vas blown
down. The office furniture was ruined
and the books and records of the lie
cation were wet through. The ligh'
wooden structure over the sea baths
at Vedado was wrecked. Eight per
sons we're killed and four wounded b!
the collapse of a tenement house OF
Inquisidor street. The other fatal
ties resulted from falling signs ant
eornices, contact with live wires IL
the city or by drowning in the har
Dor.
Outside of Havana.
One hundred and fifty tobacco barn.
in the Alquizar district were de
stroyed. The recently-planted to
bacco crop also was seriously dam
aged. Enormous damage is reported
from Guira section, the center of thu
banana and plantain growing in
dustry. Both crops are said to have
been practically destroyed. Man,
small farmers lost their all, and ART
in great d%istresses. Matanzas Cit.
was practically uninjured, only a few
houses there sustaining damages. M
loss of life has yet been reported from
outside Havana, but a message re
ceived there says five persons wer'
injured in Nunez. The first train t
come into the city since the storm
was the Santiago express, which al
rived Friday afternoon. Passenger
report that the devastation does no
reach far to the eastward.
Havana recovered quickly from tn
effects of the storm, and except TO
the presence Of gangs Of men replant
ing uprooted trees, and the sight Q
wreckage in the harbor, one would no
know that such a e storm ha
blown over this end of the islanG
Friday night gay crowds promenade
the streets and were Longing in tn
cafes, apparently quite oblivious G
the fearful experience through whic
their city had passed.