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Dead Estimated at $50 and
Upward as New Bodies Are
Unearthed-7O Per Cent of
Capital City Is Destroyed.
TOTAL DAMAGE PLACED
AT MORE THAN $1,000, 900
Eleven U. S. Priests and 10 Native
Students Is Toll of Storm as St.
Johns College Is Razed-Loss to
American Firms Estimated at
$3.50, 000-First Aid Taxed.


BELIZE, British Honduras. Sep
TENDER 12.-Belize. home of $4,000
persons, devoted itself today to
burylng the dead and ministering
TO the injured, victims of a hurri-
cane that devastated the city
Thursday.
More than $50 persons were es-
tlmated to have lost their lives in
the storm and ensuing tidal wave,
and bodies still were being un-
earthed. Many were injured by
1aIIlng walls and roofs. Seventy
per cent Of the city was leveled,
with hardly a house unscathed
and every church in ruins.
Starting at 2:30 pm. the dis
turbance ragged for about three
hours. with a calm period of 80
minutes. 1t was Immediately fol-
lowed by tidal wave that ac-
counted for most of the dead and
left water from to feet high in
the streets.
The dead included II American Cath
Ole priests and 10 native students. who
were trapped when ST. Johns College.
Jesuit institution. was razed.
Inc loss to American concerns was
pIaNeo ioueily AT SZ5UUOO, and the
total damage at well over $4,000 OO0
wireless communications were broken
and medical supplies were drenched bv
hood and rain. handicapping subsequent
reAef work. Government House was viz
tually unchanged. but the home of the
Mexican consul was DESTROYED.
GOV j. A. Burden finally got out
radio message to London asking that
brltlsh oattleship be sent with medical
supplies and food 10 care for the VIC
tins.
A gang Of convicts was out 10 dig
ging trenches to receive the dead. ard
the road to the cemetery was cleared
Tor traftc. Bodies were taken IN the
burial ground in motor lorries First-aid
SIa1lons were taxed to capacity as the
injured came of their own accord or
were brought on stretchers.
Porto Rico Recovering.
SAN JUAN. Porto Rico September
II Accommodation with the in
terror OF the island was restored today
and the electric light plants were
operating again after yesterdays hurri-
cane. which did extensive though COM
paratively minor damage
Reports from the interior bore out
the belief that the storm was confined
to the immediate vicinity of San Juan.
Most OF the island did not even know
there had been a storm
Workmen already have begun to re-
pair the houses unroofed BY the 100
mile wind and it was expected that
the trolley cars would be running again
by tonight.
British Ship Dispatched.
LONDON. September II CP).-The
British cruiser Danae. stationed at
Barbados, has been ordered to proceed
Immediately to Belize British Hon
duras, with supplies for that hurricane
devastated city. She will stop at ia
maica TO take aboard stores. and should
reach Belize by next Wednesday.
Governor Thanks Americana
NEW YORK, September II LP.-
Pan-American Always today received
the following radio message, addressed
through them to the American people
from Sir John Burden. governor of
British Honduras, whose capital, Belize,
was RACED by hurricane.
British Honduras Is profoundly
touched by the spontaneous and gener-
Gus offer of assistance from the United
States Government Red Cross in her
hour Of need.
overwhelmed as we are by the
worst calamity that has ever visited
our colony, it is difficult for us to
express the measure of our heartfelt
gratitude to the American nation,
which has given further proof Of its
sympathy and generosity to stricken
neighbors
The colony is under the deepest
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