HURRICANE STRIKES CUBAN COAST
POSSIBLE DANGER TO FLORIDA Miami, Oct. 7. A vicious tropical hurricane, with winds of a velocity exceeding *IOO miles an hour, struck the southwestern coast of Cuba late last night, says the United Press correspondent. If it maintains its present course it will hit the coast of Florida before noon to-day. The Havana weather bureau at mid-night reported 'that communications with Pinar del Rio, the rich tobacco-growing province of West Cuba, had been severed. The hurricane's centre was then placed 140 miles south-west of Havana and it was moving north-east at 12 miles an hour. The radius of the hurricane was reported to be 150 miles.
The Florida Keys area is particularly threatened, but the whole of South Florida is battened down to meet the blow. The Red Cross disaster committee is evacuating residents from the path of the hurricane.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14185, 9 October 1946, Page 3
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