CUBAN HURRICANE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 5

CUBAN HURRICANE

OVER 1800 DEAD ENTIRE PROVINCE LAID WASTE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; HAVANA, November 10. A correspondent at Jatinbonico for the newspaper “L’lnformation,” telephoned to-d!ay that 300 were killed at Camaguey City, in Wednesday’s hurricane. Fully fifty per cent, of the banana cultivation on the island of Jamaica has been wiped out by a terrific storm in the western section, the damage being estimated at three million dollars. The estimates of the death as the result of the hurricane in Eastern and Central Cuba on Wednesday, are upward! of one thousand. The storm was one of the greatest in Cuban, history. It annihilated th e town of Santa Cruz Zel Stir, and laid waste almost an entire province. The police in Camaguey said that the known dead numbered 1003. The winds drove the sea over the walls - protecting Santa Cruz, and flooded the town to a dlepth of 21 feet. Not a single house is, left standing. It is estimated that the dead were either drowned or killed* outright. It ie estimated that the death* might reach 1800. Hundreds of those injured aTO being attended to in improvised! hospitals. In Camaguey 257 buildings were destroyed, and one thousand others were damaged. Vast carie fields were laid) flat. Trees were converted into brushwood, and banana plants were flattened.