A FEARFUL HURRICANE.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
TOWNS DEVASTATED.
United Press Association— By Blectrio Telegraph—Copyright-
PORT AU PRINCE, August 11. A hurricane in the Carribean Sea wrecked
Aponce, in Puerto Kcco. drowning 200 persons. All shipping was driven ashore. Seventy-four fatalities occurred at Montserrat, where every church was destroyed, and the whole country devastated, the people being rendered homeless. Twenty-one persons were killed at the island of Nevis, while many lives were lost at Guadeloupe.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10422, 12 August 1899, Page 8
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