The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-10-26
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HAVANA WAS SWEPT BY A CY.
CLONE OF UNPRECEDENTED
SEVERITY.
DAMAGE 81, 600, 900
The Damage TO the American Squad
ron Was SmalI-5ad Night
for Soldiers and
Marines.

Havana, Cuba-A cyclone Of I'm
p~recedented severity, accompanied by
terrific ~downpour OF rain, swept oveI
the provinces OF Havana and Pinal
del Rio Wednesday night, and result
ed in 20 deaths in this city and the
serious injury of u dozen or more per
sons. The damage is estimated al
fully $4,000, 600. The dead are all
Cubans of the poorer class.
The storm caused great havoc and
confusion in the shipping in the har,
Dor, Many buildings were badly dam.
aged, and nearly all the trees in the
city and suburbs were %uprCoted.
At Camp Columbia.
The 1000 American soldiers and
marines at Camp Columbia were put
to great Inconvenience. Nearly all
the 400 tents in camp were blown
down, but there was little actual dam
age. Harry Rosdick, an army team.
ster with the Twenty-eighth infantry,
from Sioux City, Ia, sustained prob
ably fatal injuries. He was crushed
by a tree which fell through the bar
racks in which he was sleeping. Fred
Sutcliffe. OF Fort Smelling, had his
head seriously injured, and Thomas
Chonealt, of Reading Pa, sustained
injuries to his back.
The Damage in Havana.
In Havana city about fifty houses
were more or less damaged, but ow-
ing to the massive construction OF
roofs and walls, the damage is serious
only in a few instances. The build.
ings of the University of Havana sus-
tanned damages amounting to many
thousands Of dollars. A partition wall
in the American legation was blown
down. The office furniture was ruined
II the books and recort's of the le.
CATION were wet through. The light
wooden structure over the sea baths
at Vedado was wrecked. Eight per-
sons were killed and four wounded by
the collapse of a tenement house on
lnquisidor street. The other fatal.
ties resulted from falling signs and
cornices, contact with live wires in
the city or by drowning in the har-
Dor.
Outside of Havana.
One hundred and fifty tobacco barns
in the Alquizar district were de.
The recently-planted to-
bacco crop also was seriously dam
aged. Enormous damage is reported
from Guira section, the center of the
banana and plantain growing in
Both crops are said to have
been practically destroyed. MANY
small farmers lost their all, and are
In great distresses. Matanzas City
was practically uninjured, only a few
houses there sustaining damages. No
loss OF life has yet been reported from
outside Havana, but a message re-
ceiyed there says five persons were
in Nunez. The first train to
into the city since the storm
was the Santiago express, which ar
rived Friday afternoon. Passengers
report that the devastation does not
reach far to the eastward.
Havana recovered quickly from the
effects of the storm, and except for
presence of gangs of men replant.
Ing uprooted trees, and the sight of
wreckage in the harbor, one would not
know that such a severe storm had
blown over this end of the island.
night gay crowds promenaded
The streets and were lounging in the
cafes, apparently quite oblivious of
the fearful experience through which
their city had passed.