The San Francisco call., 1906-10-19
HAVANA s FATE IS
STILL IN DOUBT.
No Word Received by Out
side World From Cuba S
Hurricane-Swept Capital
STORM LOST AT SEA.
SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

NEW YORK, aOct. 1S.-RepOrts OF
damage wrought by the West Indian
hurricane continue to come in from va
rious points. Great uneasiness Is felt
as to the fate of Havana, which is cut
of from wire communication, not only
with the United States but with other
sections of Cuba.
Up to a late hour tonight no fidings
had come from the Cuban capital. IL
is known the city was in the path and
the grasp of the hurricane.
The hurricane has been lost by the
weather bureau. After passing through
the Straits of Florida it went out to
sea and passed beyond the range or
the bureaus observation. 1t did not
curve northward up along the Atlantic
coast, as expected.
At 10 O'Clock Professor Henry, In
charge of the weather bureau, said the
winds along the coast north of Florida
were normal and that the storm pre-
vailing along the north Atlantic coast
came from the northeast and had no
relation whatever to the disturbance
which broke communication with cuba
OF the southern coast the hurricane
had an almost unparalleled veiocity. II
was expected to continue for forty-
eight hours 1t is figured the disasters
of the great hurricane from September
27 to October 1 will be repeated.
During that storm fifty coasting
schooners were reported wrecked
NO NEWS AT SANTIAGO.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, Oct 49, Tele-
graphic communication with Havana is
Interrupted Every effort to get word
from the capital has proved truitless-
Neither the land lines nor the coast
wise cable is in operation
There has been no storm here ana
the cyclone which has broken corn-
munication with Havana evldenely was
confined to the central and western
part of the island.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The tropi-
cal hurricane which swept over Cuba,
breaking cable communication, ana
passed on to the southern and eastern
coasts Of Florida early today, cutting
off communication south of Jackson
Vile and flooding various places In aus
course, is tonight apparently safe away
from land and heading toward the Ber-
muda Islands and the ocean beyond
The storm swept with terrihc iorce,
but: its path was hardly more than
seventy miles in width. 1t ragged last
night in Havana, leveling the inland
wires n that neighborhood, passed
over the west end of Cuba, its vortex
crossed Sand Key and Key West with
winds blowing at least seventy-tWo
miles an hour, tipped the east coast or
the peninsula and swept on northeast
ward over the ocean.
The Weather Bureau tonight an
nounced that the storm has evidently
passed northeastward through the
Florida Straits, and is now over the
Atlantic, some distance east of the Gulf
Coast So far as reports from the
land weather stations show, there is
no indication of dangerous winds to-
night along the immediate coast and
adjacent territory.
FLEEING BEFORE STORM.
Storm warnings, however, are dis
played all along the Atlantic Coast
from Florida to Cape Cod.
ST. AUGUSTINE. Oct. 1S.-Frequent
messages have been received at the
wireless telegraph station here today.
giving the progress of severe hurri-
cane which swept from Cuba to the
lower east coast of Florida.
Early this mornig the storm was
reported in the vicinity of Havana, do
ing great damage there, but details
are lacking. Later the storm reached
Key West, blowing down small houses
and trees, being particularly severe
along the water front. AS the day
wore on the storm reached Jupiter,
where, it is said, the wind blew seventy
miles an hour.
Wires are down south of Jupiter and
no wireless reports have been received
from the Miami district.
The storm is moving in this direc-
ton. Residents on Anastasia Island
have been warned and some of them
have moved to this city.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Oct. ia Sc
we're storm has been blowing today
on the east coast of Florida, but the
wires went down early in 4--e day and
it has been impossible to obtain details.
Just before the wires failed the oper-
ator at Miami reported an unusually
high tide, with water two feet deep in
the telegraph office and the lower
streets flooded.
DESTRUCTION AT MIAMI.
At st. Augustine the tide was the
highest in ten years and streets along
the bay front were inundated.
FORT PIERCE, Fla, Oct. 1s.-The
conductor on train No. 9S, 5ust in from
Miami, reports terrible destruction
there by the hurricane today
Fully 100 houses were blown down
and the city is in a demoralized con-
dition. The handsome churches of the
Episcopal and Methodist denominations
were blown down. The concrete Jail
was leaning, with danger of turning
over and the prisoners had to be re-
moved. The car sheds are down and
the top was blown off the Peninsula
and Occidental steamer sheds. One or
two brick buildings collapsed.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 18.-Efforts to-
night to reach Key West Fla, by wire
less from here brought no results. Key
night.