Evening star., 1933-09-03
HURRICANE DEATHS
SOAR TO 63 IN NEW
CASUALTY SURVEY
ResCuers Invading Isolated
Areas Find Evidence of
Far Greater Losses.
80 REPORTED MISSING
ON FOUR SUGAR BOATS
80 Killed at Cardenas-Medical
Supplies Run Short-New
Storm Course Checked.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The death toll from the tropical
storm which swept parts of Cuba Fri
day mounted rapidly last night as the
West Indies kept sharp watch on an
other disturbance advancing from the
Caribbean.
The number of dead in Cuba jumped
from nine to at least So as communi-
cations were restored and rescuers
fought their way into communities pre-
viously isolated
Cardenas, in the heart of the Cuban
sugar belt. apparently was the hardest
hit. More than 80 were killed there,
and so to 80 men were reported missing
The latter comprised the crews of four
Sugar-laden boats which were believed
lost.
Twenty were killed in the Santa
dead, Sauga La Grande eight and
Havana one.
Medical Supplies Short.
Medical supplies were running short
at Cardenas. The city was without
lights or water.
The hurricane which lashed Cuba
centered Saturday in the Gulf of Mex
co north of Cape San Antonio, as the
new disturbance, approximately 100
miles northwest of Turks Island, moved
at the rate of II miles per hour
The Weather Bureau at Washington
and Miami would not predict the course
of the new storm more than "a hours
in advance, although officials in the
former city said there was no danger to
the United States coaStline during that
period. The Miami forecaster expected
its center to be south of Nassau by
Sunday morning.
The observatory at Santiago, Cuba,
however, predicted the latest blow
would whip over Camaguey Province
of that island, between 2 and am.
Sunday.
Belated advices from Nassau report
ed seven deaths i'll the Long Island.
Long Cay, Acklins and Crooked Island
groups from t.le hurricane which later
visited Cuba.
(copyright. 1898, by the Associated Press)
CARDENAS. Cuba, September O.
The tropical hurricane which swept
this sugar center Friday killed at least
80 persons. injured more than 100 and
wrought unprecedented damage to
property.
The extent of the damage was
learned tonight when an Associated
Press representative made his way into
CarGenaS over debris-streWn highways.
Scenes of misery were on every hand
tonight as residents worked to clear
away the tangle of trees, posts, tim
bers and refuse scattered helter -skelter
by the storm.
-Four sugar-laden sailboats from this
port with crews Of from Is to 20 each
were missing and another was aground
on nearby sandbar
1O-Foot Wave Reported.
high swept in from the sea at the height
of the storm and houses three blocks
from the harbor were stained with mud
feet from the ground.
CardenaS' famous museum, contain
ing almost priceless relics of Cubas
early history, suffered major damage
when the roof collapsed. The Pro-
gresiva School, operated by the Wom-
ems Board Of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian Church, was damaged and
DR.. R. L. Wharton, its superintendent,
estimated a loss of $4,000.
DR.. Wharton said that as far as he
could learn all American residents of
Cardenas and Varadero Beach escaped
injuries.
The Arechaval Sugar Refinery, one of
the city's most modern buildings, was
destroyed, as was the police station.
Police were housed temporarily in the
fire station. Residents, apparently be-
ieving the full force of the storm would
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