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NO WORD FROM HAVANA.
THE WHOLE ISLAND or CUBA
FELT THE HURRICANE.

N~"AN AAAN WV 49, w
DarentIy Conc on 20 the Northeast.
Barely Touching This Cosst-War
Department Gets No Storm News.
Up TO early this morning the whole island
Of Cuba was still cut Oh from communication
with the rest OF the world as a result OF the
hurricane tha swept over it Wednesday
night putting all the land telegraph wires
out Of business. Reports to the local
weather bureau md the telegraph Offices
indicated that the storm had come no
further north than the southern half OF
Florida along the ehst coast, and was appar-
emily going out to sea.
While Key West reported early yesterday
morning that the hurricane seemed likely
TO stay over Cuba. the Western Union Tele-
graph Company lost it, Key West connec-
ton at 10 A. NJ, and hadn't ~regAined it last
night. All Ms Cuban n southern Florida
business got only as far as Jacksonville.
The Western Union office at Jacksonville
reported at o o'clock last night as follows
1T is cloudy here and there is an COCA
sional drizzle. but little wind. We can get
no further south than Fort Pierce, $50 miles
away on the east coast, and then only on
two wires Fort Pierce tells us that the
wind is quieting. and that the storm Gems
TO be going out to sea-"
The Weather Bureau got little storm news
in it's night reports. No observation point
south Of Jacksonville was heard from. The
Jacksonville weather Office reported a
barometer Of 20 ,0s. Rain was falling along
the coast as far north az Baltimore.
WASHINGTON. Oct. Is.-The West indian
storm, which threatened to give trouble
along the Atlantic coast Of the United States
has veered out to sea, according TO a state
nent made tonight by Prof. A. j. Henry OF
the Weather Bureau. 1t began to rain in
Washington yesterday, and il was supposed
here when the d~ownpour continued to-day
and the tele gra phi wires wouldn't work that
this region was getting a foretaste OF the
heavy weather from the Antilles. But
there has been no wind here, only a steady,
rather heavy drizzle. The humidity was
the cause Of the telegraph wire trouble.
Telegraph lines from Havana are not
working and fGom this II is supposed that
Cuba experienced severe wind and rain.
The Weather Bureau reports that the storm
passed over Cuba last night and veering out
TO sea is now probably somewhere in the
vicinity of the bahama Islands. Prof.
Henry said there YVES no wind along the
South Atlantic coast and that the storm
had spent its strength in that region. The
storm warnings along the Atlantic coast.
which were ordered out yesterday and again
this afternoon. will he withdrawn Tomorrow
morning.
The vessels Of the navy now In Cuban
wnters are distributed as follows: The
caller Leonidas, the cruisers Brooklyn,
Denver and Minneapolis at Havana the
cruiser Cleveland at Cienfuegos; the cruiser
Des Moines at Santiago. the cruiser Newark
en- route from Guantanamo for Havana.
the cruiser Tacoma at Manzanillo, the
! transport Prairie. the battleship Texas
and the supply Celtic at Havana. There are
several chartered vessels now used az army
transports in the harbor at Havana. The
War Department has had no advices con-
I corning the storm.