, 1908-10-14
TIL AVIS.
0,ssettansted,St. NgoAx,
Wednesday, 14th October, 1898.

Wednesday, 18th October, 1893.
His Excellency the Governor returned
f.<:i st. Thomas on Sunday per sch. VF@W9'
arriving ut 5 o'clock q IN.
The o. s. Guiana sailed from New York
on Thursday 9th inst. at 3 pm. tor st. Tho-
mas, ST.. Croix, etc. etc. 300 pkgs. for
Bassin.
The 8. s. Parma on her way to New York
is due at Fredefiksted at 8 O'Clock on Fri
day night the 10Th inst, calling at st.
Thomas.
The Ne0 York Herald Of the Goth Sep
tember contained many notices of the effects
of the first of our two September cyclones,
some of which we publish this morning and
would have published earlier had our space
not been fully occupied by official matters.
The Herald says the cyclone originated
in the Caribbean. Possibly, rs we shall see
presently, there may &c some ground for
that assertion but we know, from our ex-
parience in the Danish islands and from
that of the Ndsca that it (mainly at all
e~vents) had its origin IN the Atlantic, that
it approached our islands at II rapid rate
and passed on to Turks Island, passing US
far TO the north in the early morning of the
10th aud reaching Turks Island in the
night under the same date, dismastin9 on
it's way down a lumber vessel (the Mary r..
Judgo) which was making for San Juan,
Porto Rico. Although the cyclone advanced
to Turks Island at a rapid pace, it hung a
round the neighbourhood Of that island for 2
days. not getting fairly under way again
till Sunday the 18th. It will be seen, for
instance, that the Sibiria coming to Great
Inagun from the south on Sunday could not
land her cargo hands there, so great was still
the force OF the wind and the waves. It was
a most unfortunate spot for the cyclone
to indul2e,in a holiday, for we may call the
WandacHr0 PtSSdge, around which 1t hung,
the main gate of the Caribbean from the
north. It is here that all the fruit steamers
from Jamaica and from Central America, as
we'll as Che steamers to and from the i3thmus,
must pass and il is this fact which principally
accounts for our hearing SO much of his great
storm.
The storm which followed it, coming out
of the Atlantic On the Is L, crossing the north
eastern part Of the Caribbean and on over
the Atlantic ~uOrthwarda, was possibly as strong
a storm, but Ii appears to ha o travelled out
side Of the principal sailing and stoaning
tracks.
To return to the question, whether there
was any ground for the assertion that
the cyclone originated in the Carbide
an, it seems possible that q subordinate
cyclone originated there and joined the
main storm There is no clear evidence for
it, but were there such it would seem to
explain some items of news received here,
which otherwise appear to have little mean
ing. Namely the following =
%. On the 10th the weather report from
St Kits had "high seas, which indeed
may have originated from the generally
dis, urbed state of the weather; but
perhaps from q special disturbance
south of that island.
b. Light6ourn's Nail Notes of the 10th
Sept. reports chat very severe weather,
doing some damage, was experienced
on the south side Of Porto Rico on
Thursday last" (Thursday 10th Sspt)
6. The same paper snys that q correspon-
dent at Puerto Plata writes: eve had q
brusho of a hurricane here on Friday night
(11th( but we are thankful it passed
by without hurting us"
Without proving that a cyclone originated
in the Chr. bbeun on the 10th and passed
over the east part Of Santo Domingo on the
18th, these items seem to give us a hint
that such was he case, and may account