Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-20
WIND BRINGS DEATH
Awful Results Of Cyclone Which Swept
Cuba and florida
SHIP WRECKED CFF ElLI0TT'S KEY
Tidal Wave Rolls Over Island, Killing
Over Two Hundred
LOSS IN HAVANA OVER TWO MILLIONS
Twenty Persons Drown, Most Of Them Of
Poorer Class,
GRlilSER pQnOKl w nDAHc Ire ,AnRunO
SIS IN HAVANA OVER TWO MILLIONS
CRUISER BROOKLYN uRAes ITS ANCHOR
Vessel Grounds In Mud. bat Gets OF
Undamaged-Harry FosdieL, Army
Tenmster. Who lives at sioux
City, Fatally Hurt.

city, FATALLY Hurt.
MIAMI Fla, oct. ls-The steamer St
hucie' Captain Bravo commanding. has
sunk of the Florida coast. one of the ex-
cursion steamers arrived in port tonight
bringing sixty injured. who were taken
TO the hospital, and il is said twenty eight
dead bodies will be brought up tomorrow
1t Is believed now that part Of the Flor
ida Fish and Produce company's fleet was
destroyed Manager Adams sent out one
OF its boats this morning to look for the
men and boats and on it's return the crew
reported no signs Of the fleet. The fishing
nets were found strewn upon the shore
Captain Bravo says that he anchored
on the leo side of Elliotts key TWENTY-FIVE
miles south of Miami. yesterday morning
and that soon after tidal wave engulfed
the island. He says there were $50 resi-
dents on the island, all of whom were lost
The st. Lucie was crushed by the same
wave and of the 100 passengers on board
twenty-five We're killed. Captain Bravo was
seriously injured.
barge containing 100 people is said 10
have been torn away from its moorings
at Elliott key and afterwards picked up
near the Bahama islands. fifty of its pas
sengers having been drowned.
Twenty Dead I'm Havana.
HAVANA. Oct. ia cyclone OF un-
precedented severity, accompanied by u
terrific downpour Of rain. swept over the
provinces of Havana and Pinar del Ria
Wednesday night and resulted in twenty
deaths In this city and the serious injury
of dozen or more persons. The damage is
estimated at fully s2,OOOOOO The dead are
all Cubans Of the poorer class.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
dragged fits anchor until its stern grounded
in the mud off La Regla. II got or this
morning without injury.
The storm caused great havoc and con
fusion in the shipping in the harbor Many
buildings were badly damaged and nearly
all the trees in the city and suburbs were
uprooted
The 1000 American soldiers and marines
at Camp Columbia were put to great in
convenience by the storm. Nearly all the
400 tents in camp were blown down but
there was little actual damage Harry
Fosdick, an army teamster with the
Twenty-eighth infantry. from Sioux City.
Ia, sustained probable fatal injuries He
was crushed by tree which fell through
the barracks In which he was sieeping.
Fred Sutclife Of Fort Smelling had hi.
head seriously injured and Thomas sho-
nealt of Reading. Pa, sustained injuries to
his back
Great Damage to Crops.
One hundred and fifty tobacco barns I'm
the Alduizar district were destroyed
The recently planted tobacco crop also
was seriously damaged. Enormous dam
age is reported from Guira section. the
center Of the banana and plantain grow
ing industry. These crops arc said TO
hDxra I,naV
small farmers lost their all and arc In
great distress.
Matanzas City was practically uninjured.
only u few houses there sustaining dam
ages. No loss of life has yet been reported
from outside Havana, but a message re-
ceived today says five persons were injured
at Nunez.
All street car service in Havana was
paralyzed aHd communication with out
side points was impossible. The telegraphc
service was annihilated
The first train to come into the city
since the storm was the Santiago express
which arrived this afternoon. Passengers
report that the devastation does not reach
far to the eastward
Havana recovered quickly from the ef-
fects of the storm, and today except for
the presence of gangs of men replanting
uprooted trees and the sight of wreckage
in the harbor, one would not know that
such severe storm had blown over this
end OF the island.
Tonight gay crowds are promenading the
streets and lounging in the cafes appar-
entity quite oblivious Of the fearful exper-
ience through which their city has passed
Street car traffic was fully resumed to-
day.
Cruiser Brooklyn Aground.
The storm caused the greatest damage
and confusion in the harbor. The Brook
lyn drifted further than any other war
ship and finally brought up of La Regla
with it's stern in the mud. II got on this
morning under its own steam and has sus-
tanned no injury. The cruiser Denver, the
cruiser Minneapolis, the battleship Texas
the auxiliary cruiser Prairie and the supply
ship Celtic all dragged their anchors NOR,
or less. but prompt seamanship ,avarted
collisions These ships were all made fast
TO permanently anchored buoys which
never before were known to have dra gged
The damage sustained by the squadron
amounts TO little.
The chartered army transport Chicago.
from Newport News. with horses and
mules and few teamsters. arrived here
this morning after terrific struggle with
the gale of the Florida coast. Its fore
mast was carried away and huge seas
swept It's decks. The superstructu-e was
damaged and a number Of stalls were car
ried away One hundred mules and twenty
horses We're swept overheard and many
other animals were injured
The total number OF lighters sunk in
the harbor has not yet been asc srta.ncd.
Many Of them were loaded with sugar and
other merchandise, upon which the Iossc
will be great, Owing 10 the lack of n ht-
ers, steamers are now discharging alorg-
side the wharves. The harbor has been
searched for dead and IL Is now believed
that all the bodies have been found.
wind Ei$hty Miles an Hour
The storm began at an early hour I'm m.
evening and increased in severity AT night
when the wind reached a maximum Of
eighty miles an hour. The people Of the
city were badly frightened aud many Of
them passed sleepltss nightC There was
no power for electric lights. the gas burned
diiuiy and candles had 10 be resorted to.
Thousands OF persons spent the night Ia
the cafes. The weather observer Of -