The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-10-20


Pa, was dangerously hurt in the back
A majority of the injuries were slight
ana after attention from the physi,
clans most of the mex returned to
duty
For more than thistss-six hours all
traffic in the city was Suspended. Not
tEaih ran, every street car was idle
and the only sign of life in the streets
ing his way slowly along the leewari
side of the street, with his hands
spread against the walls of the houses
for support Windows were blAwn in
by the first strong blasts, and in al
most all the houses every open space
was closed with tables or boards from
the inside.
City's Loss $4,000, 600.
The total damage within the city
limits is estimated at $2.000,000, with
a much greater total for the country
districts. The full extent of the loss
will not be apparent. until statistics of
the crops are gathered. Whole planta-
tions have been stripped of their new
tobacco crops, and the damage to fruit
trees has ruined hundreds of small
raisers 1t is reported that scores of
families in Havana province are des.
titute, their homes being ripped to
pieces by the wind
All the dead are poor Cubans, most
of them being buried in the ruins of
their homes in the cheap quarters.
Four sailors manning coasting
schooner were drowned Twelve coast
ers were driven on the rocks at Male
con.
The chartered army transport Gu
bano, from Newport News with horses
and mules and a few teamsters. arriv-
ed after terrific struggle with the
hurricane off the Florida coast. The
Cubano was almost overwhelmed by
the seas, and nearly all on board ex-
pected death. One hundred mules and
twenty horses were swept overheard
and hardly a surviving animal escap.
ed injury. The ship presented sorry
sight when she came into the harbor
Her foremast was snapped off close to
the deck, leaving. a Jagged stump ten
feet in height, and she was almost
stripped clean the entire length of her
deck.
Heavy losses were sustained in the
sinking of large feet of lighters, all
laden with merchandise. 1t is said
that several thousand tons OF sugar
went down In several of the lighters
Forty lighters were sunk.
Eight Dead In One Building.
The principal loss of life occurred
In tenement house in Inquisidor
street, occupied bF many poor fami-
lies. The projecting upper portion Of
this building collapsed first, and then
the three floors gave way and fell
Eight of the inhabitants were killed
and five were injured. The other ia
talities resulted from falling signs and
cornices, contact with live wires in the
city or by drowning in the harbor.
The destruction of trees by the cy-
clone was a most remarkable feature.
Throughout the lengsh of the Prado
scarcely one tree remains standing.
They were nearly all uprooted or snap
ped off. Havana has thus lost one of
its chief beauties, for it will be sew
eral years before they can be replant-
ed. The parks also were destroyed.
In Central park, Colon park, San Juan
de Dies park and in the Plaza de Ar
mas there are practically no trees left
standing. The foliage in the vedado,
Cerro and other suburbs suffered like
wise.
The street car service has been part
ly resumed One of the wrecked
scheoners is now perched on the rocks
in front of the Santa Clara battery,
100 feet from the water, while the
other is crushed and battered against
the sea wall at the foot of the Prado.