TROPICAL HURRICANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 231, 30 September 1935, Page 7

TROPICAL HURRICANE.

Death and Destruction in Cuba. MIAMI'S LUCKY ESCAPE. MIAMI, September 20. Residents of areas on the eastern coast of Florida waited tensely for a tropical hurricane which was reported to be sweeping northward after having caused considerable loss of life ancl damage to property in Cuba and Jamaica. Early last evening, liowever, the officials at the weather bureau reported that the storm had moved • slightly to the east and that its full force probably would miss Miami and coastal points to the north. According t'o reports from Havana an area 150 to 200 miles wide across the island of Cuba was swept'by the hurricane and 30 people are reported to have been killed in Cien Fuegos, in the Santa Clara province. More than 1000 homes were destroyed and other damage to property was caused. All storm warnings were hauled down along the east coast when the hurricane later last evening was reported to have passed off Miami into the Atlantic Ocean. A message from Kingston stated that gales with a velocity up to GO miles an hour had swept Jamaica, uprooting banana trees estimated at 2,000,000 dollars —about 35 per cent of the colony's crop.