CYCLONE AND TIDAL WAVE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8292, 21 November 1906, Page 6

CYCLONE AND TIDAL WAVE.

LOSS OF LIFE AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. By Telegraph.—Press Assooiation. (Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.) SAN FKAN CISCO, October 25. I Havana and the other Cuban districts were swept by a terrific oyclone on the 17th October, Cable communication with Havana was oat off, and for some days it waa feared that the oity had met with some fceirible fate. Later it [transpired that though the substantial buildings were saved in the oity trees were almost entirely swept away. Twenty persons were killed Jn Havana. The rivers overflowed, and mnoh stouk was destroyed in the country districts. A despatch from Maimi, Florida, states that the death list there is as high as one thousand. Barges crowded with workmen were swept away and many vessels of all sorts were destroyed. Mews from San Salvador states thai the tempest raged, there continuously for ten days, flooding riob valleys and causing great loss of life and property. Over flftean million tons of water has fallen, and the topography of the district has changed. Houses and brilges have fallen, crops and stock has been swept away, and over one hundred persons drowned. At Coate pcque a vast quantity of salpbur water was thrown out of the voloano Ohulo, inundating the town of Ponohinaloo, aud killing most of the inhabitants. The tidal wave was accompanied by a barricade sweeping all before it.