ANOTHER HURRICANE
THREATENED IN FLORIDA
WARNINGS ISSUED TO RESIDENTS
(Received 21st October, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, 20th October. Messages from Havana state that a heavy storm on Wednesday flooded the streets and stopped transportation. Power systems were dislocated and communication with the interior cut-off. The wind reached a velocity of a hundred miles an hour, and a number of the flimsier houses were unroofed, windows smashed, and wreckage strewn about the streets. There were indications that the hurricane was then moving in a north-easterly direction at a rate of ten miles an hour. Business in the city was virtually suspended. Subsequently communication with Havana via Key West was lost. A message from Tampa (Florida) stated that the Government Meteorologists there were of opinion that the hurricane was apparently heading for Florida, and had issued a warning urging residents of the West Coast and shipping to take every' precaution to safeguard life and property. Miami reported later that the hurricane, the '.l.ird this year, was expected in Florida late on Wednesday night. All schools were ordered to be closed, and prisoners in the _city gaols were released to be -with their families on giving their word of honour to return.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1926, Page 12
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199ANOTHER HURRICANE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1926, Page 12
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