'A hundred and fifty persons are! believed to have perished in the] hurricane from the Carribbean Sea. which swept the Bahamas and. Plorida a few days ago. hurricane.
Nassau bore the brunt of the
The damage is estimated at at! east $3,000,000.
Many families are homeless and beautiful drives are littered with Lroken glass and debris.
Nevertheless the inhabitants eagerly joined to search for the picturesque sponge fleet consisting of some 200 small schooners, from which about 150 persons are miss~ ing and believed to be drowned.
There were about 60 fishing smacks in the harbour before the storm of which only three survived.
The outer islands also suffered considerably. As an instance, eight rum-running boats were hurled up fon the beach of one island and smashed to atoms. The crews had previously rowed ashore so there were no casualties from these Miami, July 29.
'A wireless message from the Captain of the steamer Munamar lying at Nassau indicates that eight persons were killed in a tropical hurricane at Nassau on July 26, which did damage to property to the extent of $4,000,000.—Reuter. jan Domingo, July 29.
Three schooners bound for the Windward Islands sank in a storm off Saona Inland. Fifty-four bodies have been washed ashore—Reuter, Damage to West Indies Coffee Or New York, July 30.
Unconfirmed messages from Porto Rice calculate that 50 per cent. of the coffee crop was damaged in the recent hurricane—Reuter.
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