WEST INDIAN STORM

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 5

WEST INDIAN STORM

WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. By Telegraph—Press Association— I Copyright. NEW YOKE. October IS. Cuba has been visited by a disastrous cyclone. , , , Thousands of persons are homeless and destihrTc. the crops have been destroyed, And international help may be required. A tidal wave partially submerged Havana, causing damage to the extent of a million dollars. Simultaneously with the floods tn Havana, Iho town of St. Augustine, was inundated. Ono hundred persons were killed and hundreds injured, and the damage is estimated at millions of pounds, ns a result of tho hurricane. At Havana the inhabitants are panicstricken. A BLOW AT KEY WEST. EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF DAMAGE AT HAVANA. (Received October 19, 11.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 19. During tho storm at Key "West, Florida, several vessels parted from their moorings, and many houses were unroofed. The wind velocity is reported to have reached ninety miles an hour. Three deaths are reported. Numerous seismic shocks have been registered at Santa Clara Observatory, California, and It is announced that some connection, exists between these shocks and the tidal wave.in Cuba. A Havana telegram states that the reports of damage by the storm were exaggerated, and that two deaths only were recorded.