New-York tribune., 1906-10-20
HUNDREDS DROWNED.
Continued from first page.

nioes contact with live wires in the city or by
drowning in the harbor
During the height of the storm there was
great alarm among the guests of the lnglaterra
and other hotels. Doors. windows and skylights
were blown In and the rain flooded the rooms
The destruction of trees by the cyclone was
remarkable feature. Scarcely a tree along the
Prado remains standing. Havana has thus lost
one of its chief beauties for it will be many
months before they can be replanted. The parks
also were devastated. In Central Park, Colon
Park San Juan de Dios Park and IN the Plaza
de Arnas there are practically no trees left
standing There similar conditions in the
vedado, Cerro and other suburbs
In some instances heavy stones were blown
from the tops OF houses to the street, and two
such missiles struck streetcars. The streets in
the lower part of the city flooded to
depth of a foot or more, and the lower floors of
buildings there were inundated. The loss in
merchandise and lighters and to the wharves
and warehouses will be great, but no accurate
estimate has yet been made. The electric power
service was put out OF commission. and conse-
quently no newspapers could be published this
morning.
Reports received here from Pinar del Rio City.
while not yet accurate. say that the damage to
buildings there great. The injury to the
sugar crop is not serious. The rivers of Havana
and Pinar del Rio provinces have overfowed in
the lowlands, and horses cattle and pigs by
the hundred have been drowned.
The storm began at early hour in the even
ing, and increased in severity at night, when
the wind reached a maximum velocity OF eighty
miles hour. The people of the city were
badly frightened, and many of them passed a
sleepless night There was no power for cleo
trio lights the gas burned dimly and candles
were in demand. Thousands of persons spent
the night In the cafes. The weather observer OF
the Been College reported that the barometric
~ n
fall in tWenty-four hours reached 4. Il inches.
The centre of the cyclone appears to have
crossed from the Caribbean, sweeping through
both provinces 1t passed to the north from
Havana, and crossed Florida, going northeast.
The streetcar service In Havana was partly re-
sumed Thursday evening, but the powders
that had been washed across the track of the
suburban line along the sea front have not yet
been removed One of the wrecked schooners is
now perched on the rocks in front of the Santa
Clara battery, a hundred feet from the water.
while the other is crushed and battered against
the sea wall at the foot of the Prado.
Cable communication with the outside world
came to an end suddenly Wednesday night and
was not restored until this evening, the break
being In the land line between Havana and
Cajinan-
Gangs of hundreds of men of the Public
Works Department, under the direction OF Lieu
tenant Colonel William NJ. Black OF the engl-
neers, United States Army, are active in differ
ent quarters of the city to-day in replanting
uprooted trees cutting off injured branches and
generally cleaning up the parks ana streets'
While the damage to buildings was not serious
IN many cases, later reports show that num-
Der of walls We're blown down and many win
dows shattered. The interiors of many
houses were flooded The jai alai building and
the building of the DEPARTMENT OF physics OF
Havana Uniersity were unroofed.
Train service with the east resumed to-
night with the departure Of the Santiago Ex-
press.
In front of the bonded warehouses in La Regla
the harbor shows q long lire of wrecked lighters
Many more went down further out and are lost
to sight. A conservative estimate of the sunken
lighters places the number at forty.