Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-20
GREAT HAVOC WAS
WROUGHT BY Rain
AND STRONG WINDS
Seven Are Dead in Frisco Amid
Old Ruins.
GREAT DAMAGE IN CUBA
Many Killed and Crops Ruined in the
Benighted Land.
AMERICAN STEAMERS WRECKED
Entire Population of One Island Kill
ID and $50 Persons Lose Their Lives
in the Calamity.
Many Killed and Crops Ruined in the
Benighted Land.
AMERICAN STEAMERS WRECKED

From Maine to the gulf and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
come advices here and there of
storms more or less severe An
other brief chapter was added to
the San Francisco horror by falling
walls and the consequent death of
seven men. In Cuba the weird tale
of the storm is yet to be told, the
wires still being in trouble. Some
idea of the magnitude of the hurri-
canes force may be gathered by
the fact that the entire population
of one small island-25o persons
are reported dead.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 20.-The
strong wind blowing over the city this
morning caused the collapse of many of
the walls of the ruined buildings that had
been left standing since the fire. Reports
have come of the death of three men by
the falling of one of the walls of the Grand
Another accident was at Sacramento and
Montgomery streets, where four Italian
laborers were buried under a falling wall of
the Pacific Mutual Life building.
HAVANA. October 20.-Reports of the
damage done by the storm in the interior
of the island continue to come in slowly.
The extent of the damage done to the
DaI
Rio is not yet fully known, but it is be-
lieved to be great. The tobacco was plant
ed late this year on account of the con-
tinuous rains, hence the plants have not
yet sprcuted and many of the seed beds
have been washed out, necessitating re-
planting. which will retard the crop. The
storm is reported to have been very Sc
we're in the Vuelta Abajo district of Pinar
Del Rio.
TIE principal havoc outside of Havana is
reported to have been at Batabano, where
seven men were drowned, the American
steamers Campbell and Sara Ware wrecked
many houses destroyed and two hundred
persons rendered homeless The mayor of
Batabano has issued appeal for relief
for the destitute, and Governor .unez of
Havana province, will proceed there today
with funds and food supplies
The brunt of the storm seems to have
been sustained by the city of Havana and
its suburbs No more deaths have been re-
ported.
Swept by Great Waves.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 20.-It would not
surprise anybody If the list of the dead
strewn in the wake of the great cyclone
which struck Havana in all its fury on
Wednesday should mount up to nearly .
thousand. 1t Is known this morning that
Elliotts Key, small island twenty five
miles south of Miami. Fla. was swept by
the great waves thrown uo by the storm,
and go persons-the islands entire popu-
lation-wiped out of existence. The other
instances of loss of life. so far as known
at this writing, as follows:
The steamship st. Lucie was crushed
against Elliotts Key by a tidal wave and
twenty-five of It's passengers were killed
or drowned.
"A 10 nave contained per-
sons, was torn from its moorings at the
key. and more than fifty of the passengers
were drowned
part. at least, of the Florida Fish and
Produce Company's fleet is believed to
have been destroyed. No sign of the fleet
could be discovered after the storm, and
there was undoubtedly heavy loss of life
among the fishermen
Twenty Are Dead