The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-10-20
CYCLONE s RACE.
Havana Visited by Worst
Storm in Years.
HIT CRUISER BROOKLYN
American Camps IN Suburbs Wrecked
by Hurricane.
CUBA LONG CUT orr from WORLD

Our Warrhips In Harbor Rode out
storm, hat Ia Great Peril when
Anchors Dragged - Many Cossting
Vessels Driven HiRh IN On Rocks.
sixteen Persons Perished In city
aud Many FATALITIES aud Much DAM
age L. Reported From Outlying Dis-
tricts-Tifty Houses In Capital Were
wrecked - street Car aud Electric
LiEht service Held Up.
HAVANA. oct. 20.-As n result Of
the worst cyclone that Havana has cX'
pcrlcnccd since 1894 and that shut on
Cuba from the rest Of the world for
more than thirty-slx hours. sixteen per.
sous nrc known TO have lost their
lives. scores were injured ana great
damage caused 10 property.
Tho Prado and many parks In the
city have been practically destroyed,
aud thirty Ave llghtSrs have been sent
TO the bottom. Al electric communi.
cation within the city AID with the
outside world was cut on. The whole
American feet Of warshlps that lay ~
anchor In the harhpr was menaced.
and one Of them was blown ashore
but soon hoatcd again.
The troops and sailors. however cs.
capped injury. and the fatalities are
confined q natives.
More than 100 Of the tents In
Camp Columbia. where the American
troops are lodged. were blown 20 tat
tcrs. aud few OF the soldiers We're
slightly injured, the majority. however,
escaping With r11l trcnching
The Brooklyn dragged her anchor I'M
~ her stern grounded in the mud of
In Regla. She was stranded FOR many
hours. but got of without Injury.
Harry Fosdlck. an army teamster.
with the Twenty eighth infantry. from
Sioux City. Ia. sustained probably IA
tai injuries. He was crushed by n
tree which fell through the barracks In
which he was sleeping. Fred SUIT
cllne OF Fort Smelling had his head
seriously injured. and Thomas Shoncalt
Of Reading, Pa. sustained injuries to
his back
One hundred and fifty tobacco barns
In the Alquizar district have been de-
stroyed. The recently planted tobacco
rrop also has been seriously damaged.
Enormous damage is reported from the
Gulra section. the center of the banana
and plantain growing industry These
crops are SAID to have been practically
totally destroyed. Many small farm
ers have lost their all and are in great
distress.
The cruisers Denver and Minneapo-
lis. the battleship Texas. the auxiliary
cruiser Prairie and the supply ship
Celtic all dragged their anchors more
or less, but prompt seamanship ayerted
collisions. These ships were all made
fast to permanently anchored buoys,
which never before were known to
have dragged. The damage sustained
by the squadron amounts to little. Two
boats We're lost, and some of the lighter
deck fittings were carried away. The
bridge of the Prairie was displaced.
Two c0asting schooners We're driven
high on the rocks at the Malacon. The
crew of one managed To get ashore,
but the crew of the other. four men.
was drowned. The chartered army
transport Cubano. from Newport News
with horses and mules and few
transfers, has arrived here after a ter.
rifle struggle with the hurricane ut sea.
In Havana city about fifty houses
We're more or less injured, but owing
to the massive construction of roofs
and walls the damages are serious In
only few instances The buildings
ofs the University Of Havana sustained
damages amounting TO many thousands
of dollars. A partition wall In the
American legation was blown down.
The Office furniture was ruined, and
the books and records OF the legation
were wet through
Eight persons were killed and four
were injured by the collapse of a tene,
ment house on lnqusidor street. The
other fatalities resulted from falling
signs and cornices. contact with live
wires in the city or by drowning in the
harbor. The great unoccupled brick
building covering the old United rail
road wharf, near Regla, was totally
demolished.
The street car service In Havana has
been partly resumed, but the powders
that We're 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 i'm front of the Santa
Clara hatte-r. 100 feet from the water.
while the other is crushed and battered
against the sea waH at the foot of the
Prado.
Gable communication with the out
side world came TO an end suddenly on
Wednesday night and was not restored
until Friday night. the break being in
the land line between Havana and
Cajinan.
That the damage to the American
warships and camp was not greater Ia
due to the fact that a warning had