HURRICANE’S DEATH TOLL
MAY REACH 1800. [BY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] HAVANA, November 10. The estimates of the dead 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 the town of Santa. Cruz Zel Sur, 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 depth of 21 feet. Not a single house is left standing. It is estimated that tho dead were either drowned or killed outright. LATER. It is estimated that the deaths might reach 1800. Hundreds of those injured are being attended to in improvised hospitals. In Camaguey 257 buildings were destroyed, and one thousand others ■were damagied. Vast cane fields ■were laid flat. Trees were converted into brushwood, auid banana plants were flattened.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1932, Page 7
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