Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-10-18
BUILDINGS ARE WRECKED
AND LIVES SUPPOSED LOST
Heavy Wind and Rain STRIKES Ameri-
can Coast and Much Fear Is Felt
Warnings Against Danger Have
Been Issued as Far North as Eliza
beth City, N. C.
By Associated Fres.)

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munication 20 all points south OF here
cut Off, wireless stations cut of com
mission and the Increasing danger OF
the interruption with communication
with the entire world, Tampa and all
that territory between Tampa and
the Florida keys is being storm-swept
tonight. II IS Impossible at this hour
TO estimate The damage. In Tampa
up to IL O'Clock the damage Is con
fined TO the stripping OF signs from
their mornings, rippiag eff of tin
roofs, blowing down Of telegraph and
electric light wires and minor dam
ages TO shipping.
With a steady gale blowing now at
the rate Of 30 miles an hour and in
creasing IN intensity ever, moment,
the tide in the bay is icvec than the
Old Bridge tender can remember ever
having seen IL before. Many small
craft anchored in the vicinity of the
Tampa Bay Hotel are stranded and a
few pleasure craft are mere or less
damaged.
Blows Water Out OF Gay.
The storm has blown The water out
of the bay. causing tide at least
seven feet below low vator. Chief
alarm is felt in the damage to fruit
and truck south of Tampa. Indica-
tons at late hour are thai the storm
will pass a little to the south of Tam
pa. il Is probable il vii spend itself
somewhere iii the everglades.
Grave fears are entertained for the
safety of 10 members OF the Plant
City artillery, who are encampQR at
Egmont key. The cou.paIy laDded
there this afternoon ana when the
tents were pitched the wind immedi-
ately blew them down. Considerable
fear is also entertained for residents
At Passe-A-Grille. a near sound resor:
on the bay. There are az least fifty
persons there and IL is believed they
felt the full force of the disturbance
Lives Lost In Cuba.
HAVANA. Oct. 1.-THE island Of
Cuba ass probably sustained the
greatest material disaster in all her
history in he practically continuous
cyclone which began with light rams
on Thursday morning. developing to
terrible Goods and devastating hnrri-
canes and continuing until this even
ing. The western half OF the island
suffered more severely than the
eastern. The frs: cyclone, OF which
there was some warning. had hardly
abated on Sunday night, when SUD
denly the eyclonic blast swept over
Matanzas. .Pinar Del Rio ar. Havana
provinces. completing DISSATISFACTION
wrought by the FIRST storm.
AT . o'clock tonight the lain was
still falling IN frequent heavy gusts,
bur the wind had abated considerably
and the sea was falling
Few fatalities up TO the present have
been reported Three men were
drowned in the harbor but no deaths
from the storm occurred in the city
II is probable. however. that the cas-
usItv list IN the interior xill be large.
Waves Sweep Havana
During the night and all through
the day Cuba was in the grasp oil
storm which blew up with great
violence from the southwest and at
tanned its greatest force shortly be-
fore noon. Then the wind shifted
10 the west and the sea began 20
rise. the waves sweeping in upon the
city. Within an hour the pounding
Of the waters had broken a breach
through the Maiecon sea wall The
waves quickly incr,a sed To mountain
Gus heights. engulfing the Aalecon
driveway and flooding the handsome
residences facing thereon for dis
lance Of a mile.
The waters. stfIl rising. invaded All
the seward part Of the city. until
z O'Clock. in the afternoon. when The
section. bounded by the Maieoon- the
Prado and the Bouicvards Calzada De
caliano and Aniuas were several feer
undrr water. The residents Of the
lover Hoors were driven 70 seek
refuge on hizher icvsis. while bun
dreda we're rescued in the submerged
districts from buildings that threat
cued % collapse a. any moment
Houses Wrecked
vcdado. a residential suburb. was
exposed TO the fun fury n the storm.
Tho eca advanced some HUNDRED
wards Inland. demolishinE many snail
structures ana probably causing Joss
Of life.
The upper par OF the Prado vas
fnsn filed With fhrongs Of panic
stricken negroes. carrying such
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