Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-25

ing official dispatch was received at
the war department yesterday after
noon:
"Havana-Terrific hurricane sweet
Havana and vicinity at midnight last
ing several hours. Wind officially re-
ported so miles an hour. Telegraph
and telephone wires all down. Trees
blown down in all parts. Two schoon-
ers ashore. Loss to the city and
country heavy. Fears of considerable
loss of life. Eight deaths reported in
Havana. Have called upon the goy-
ernors of the provinces to report local
conditions. Ocean going shipping in
Havana unframed. A number IF
launches and lighters adrift and sunk
"Magoon."
Havana, Oct. 20.-A cyclone which
began here Wednesday afternoon
reached its full fury Thursday morn
ing. The greatest damage occurred
in the harbor and along the docks.
A number of smaller craft and light
ers were sunk and some houses
blown down. The total number of
deaths was 20, all Cubans of the
poorer class. There are a number of
sailors among the dead. Several
score of longshoremen and sailors
were injured. A torrential downpour
of rain completely stopped street car
service and the wind and rain made it
next to impossible to get about the
streets. The trees in the park and
along the shaded avenues were blown
down in large numbers. The cyclone
was confined to the provinces of
Havana and Pinar del Rio, Matanzas
City escaped. All telegraphic COM
munication was annihilated. Yester-
day the wind moderated greatly and
the city is fast resuming it's normal
appearance.
Millions of Damage Done.
1t is estimated that the damage in
Havana province will reach fully
$2,000,000. One hundred and fifty to-
bacco barns in the Alquisear district
were destroyed The recently planted
tobacco also has been seriously in
iured. Enormous damage is reported
from the Guira section, the center of
the banana and plantin, growing dis
trict. These crops are said to have
been practically totally destroyed.
Many small farmers lost their all and
are in great distress.
Save for the activity in all quarters
of the city of hundreds of men of the
public works department under the
direction of Lieutenant Colonel Black
of the United States engineers, in re-
planting uprooted trees, Havana yes
terday resumed it's normal aspect. No
other traces of the hurricane are Wis
ible excepting the masts of wrecked
lighters protruding from the surface
to the harbor. These small vessels
were almost driven by the force of the
wind against the harbor bulkheads,
where they broke up and sank.
Street car traffic has been fully re-
sumed, but electric light, telegraph
and telephone services are still badly
crippled. The harbor has been
searched for the dead and it is now
believed that all bodies will be found.
Reports received here yesterday
from NUM- say that five persons were
injured there. Subsequent reports
from Matanzas city declare that some
of the houses there sustained slight
damages.
Cruiser Brooklyn Grounded.
The cruiser Brooklyn dragged her
anchor until the stern grounded in
the mud off La Regla. She got off
yesterday morning without injury.
The 1000 American soldiers and
marines at Camp Columbia were put
to great inconvenience by the storm.
Nearly all the 400 tents in the camp
were blown down, but there was little
actual damage. Harry Fosdyke, a
teamster with the twenty-eighth in
fantry from Sioux City, Iowa, sus-
tanned probably fatal injuries. He
was crushed by tree. which fell
through the barracks in which he was
sleeping. Fred Sutcliffe, Fort Smell
ling. had his head seriously injured,
and Thomas Shonealt. Reading, Pa,
had his back injured.
Matanzas City was practically I'M
injured. only a few houses there
sustaining damages. No loss of life
is not yet reported outside of Havana,
but il is reported that five persons
we're injured at Nunez.
Squadron in Grave Danger.
The cruiser Denver. cruiser Mime
apolis, Battleship Texas, auxiliar.