HURRICANE DAMAGE.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. CUBA SUFFERS BADLY. THIRTY PERSONS REPORTED KILLED. (Received Tuesday, 7.35 p.m.) KINGSTON, September 30. The week-end hurricane, the tailend of which struck Jamaica on Friday night killed two persons and damaged banana crops. The hurricane passed on to Cuba, where it. cut a swath 150 miles wide through three provinces, killing thirty persons. A hundred people were rendered homeless. Heavy damage was done to property. The hurricane menaced the east coast of Florida for seventeen hours but it moved across Bimini, sent high winds to the Bahamas Islands and rushed towards Bermuda, which, however, escaped with minor damage to-night, as the hurricane whirled by about a hundred miles north-west of Bermuda, which is believed to be safe from serious damage. ___
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Wairarapa Age, 2 October 1935, Page 5
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