Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-19
100 WERE KILLED \
BY THE CYCLONE
ABOUT HAVANA
The Brooklyn Was Dashed Upon
the Shore.
TORN FROM HER MOORINGS
Whole American Fleet Was Menaced
by the Storm.
PRIEST WARNED AMERICANS
But for Father Loves Timely Advice
of the Approach, Damage Would
Have Been Greater.
PRIEST WARNED AMERICANS

There are but meager reports
from Cuba of the hurricane which
swept over the island, and efforts
on the part of government officials
here to obtain some news of the
United States warships and gov
eminent troops have been abso-
lutely futile. A dispatch to the
New York Evening Telegram
states that 100 persons are dead as
a result of the cyclone. The Brook
lyn was torn from her moorings
and thrown upon the shore. 1t is
feared that when the interior is
heard from the death rate will be
much higher.
NEW YORK. Ocober 19.-The Evening
Telegram prints a dispatch from Havana
reporting more than 100 persons dead from
the cyclone there.
The cruiser Brooklyn was torn from her
moorings and thrown upon the shore.
The dispatch to the Evening Telegram is
as follows:
over 100 are dead today from the worst
cyclone which has ever visited this city.
The whole American fleet was menaced,
and the cruiser Brooklyn torn from her
mornings and thrown upon the shore
"Ninety-four of the fatalities are con-
fined 10 natives, while sixteen foreign resi-
dents are reported killed
More than 1900 tents in Camp Column
bia have been blown to atoms, houses I'M
rooted and one trooper probably fatally
hurt
FORTUNATELY the storm gave everybody
about half an hours warning and when the
blast arrived the marines on shore mad
sought shelter in the warships. All but the
BROOKLYN rode out the storm. These ships
included the Minneapolis, Texas Denver
and Prairie.
Cars Washed From Track.
when the tempest reached its height
buildings were shaken as with an earth
quake. street cars were washed from their
tracks, windows were blown in like paper
and roofs and doors swept away.
Several of the smaller frame houses were
blown from their foundations and wrecked.
These were situated in the poorer district
and were the cause of so many deaths
among the natives.
1T is feared that great loss of life oc-
Cured in the interior, especially in Pinar
del Rio and on an island at Ortomesia.
THE wind is estimated to have blown at
the rate of eighty miles an hour.
The greatest money loss will come from
the damage done to shipping. Great waves
engulfed about thirtyfive lighters at an
Choir in the harbor, and they were smashed
against the wharves.
1T is estimated that the loss of life and
damage would have been greater had it not
been for the timely warning given by
Father Love at Gunoiu.
HE is a noted weather observer of Berlin
College.
He telephoned to Columbia Camp at 7:3O
o'clock one hour before the storm descend
ed, that a cyclone was coming. and his
warning was immediately needed.
Very Meager Reports.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 19-The Western
Union issued the following notice shortly
before noon today, showing that commu-
nication between Havana and the outside
world has been restored:
Cable communication between Hayana
and Miami, Fla. has been re-established.
Land lines In vicinity of Miami are still
storm bound and business Is moving through
the state by special messenger. Linemen
on ground will soon improve the situation"
Beyond this statement the telegraph COM
pany announced that 1t had no other infor-
nation to make public.
Havana had been cut off from commune
cation with the outside world since Wednes-
day night, when the message licked under
the deep from a Western Union operator in
the Cuban city to Key West that hurri-
cane was raging there, and many lives
would be. At this point the message
broke off.
Disaster and Ruin.
Reports are coming from Florida this
morning telling of disaster and ruin caused
by the hurricane on the southeastern coast
of that state.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
morning by way of Bermuda and jamaica
As all wires are down between this point