New York, Sept. 15.
Tt is believed that the liner Orcoma, which is ex route from Bermada to Hasana with Sir Austen Ghamblais and his party, is inthe linet path of the tornado which sweeping over the Caribbean Se Rice yes that it pean San_Juan desolation and" the university of Porto Rice was badly. dlamayed. Phere was nival loss shipping, The death-roll resulting from the! twrnadaes Nebraska and Thirty persons have been killed a result of the hurricane at Hu-macao, and the sugar-crop has suffered extensive damage—Reuter.
New York, Sept. 16.
The death-roll resulting from the hurricane in San Juan is now estimated at 1,000, and the damage at many millions of dollars, Half the population of Porto Rice homeies:
Cables are being received pleading for food and clothing.
Refugees from other towns also report a heavy death-roll.
Sept. 17, The Governor of Porto Rice states that the poorer classes, including a million "jivaros," or peasant farmers, are completely destitute.
The Porto Riean authorities acted quickly to check profiteering, while guards have been told off to stop, looting.
Refugees who have reached San Juan over almost impassable roads report that the death-roll in nine places totals 258, Phe coffee, sugar-cane, citrus and have suffered the wride Coast the Next (o Suffer The hurricane ut noon yesterday struck the coast of Florida, tearing uproot telegraphic radios, howe% casualties.
Tt is believed thatthe inhabitants, remembering the dis aster of 1926, in which a heavy loss life occurred, moved to safety on recdlpt of a' warning from the Weather Bureau.—Reuter,
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