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.says the cyclone did enormous damage

in the interior of that .island, a number

of coffee and cocoa estates being de

vastated. Lc M.rtirle, a suburb, was

half destroyed. There were a number

of fatalities.

St. Jean advices say the cyclone

caused great destruction in Porto Rico,

whence it passed northward to Dominica

and thence to Cape Haytien and the

eastern end iff Culca.

THE WORST CONFIRMED.

Loudon, Aug. 10. —The Governor of

the Leeward Islands, Sir Francis Flem

ing, confirms the dispatch from St.

Thomas, D. W. 1.. to the Associated

Press announcing the devastation caused

by the hurricane at the Island of Mont

serrat, says 74 deaths are already

known, he adds that 21 persons were

killed at the Island of Nevis.

The hurricane was not so severe at

Antigua. One death is reported there,

but many persons have been, rendered

homeless. The other presidencies of the

Leeward Islands have not reported the

damage done.

FURTHER RUIN WROUGHT.

Fort de France, Island of Martinique,

Aug. 10.—The authorities of the Island,

of Guadeloupe are still without news

from the interior owing to the interrup

tion of telegraph communication as a

result of the recent hurricane. But

other advices which have reached La

Point-a-Pitre say the coffee and cocoa

crops have been nearly totally destroyed.

At La Point-a-Pitre seven persons were

injured and at Moule the damage done

was considerable and several persons

were killed and wounded. At Petit

Canal and Port lands several persons

were killed and a number injured. The

villages of Grippen and Lumentiu have

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The news & observer. (1899). Raleigh, N.C., 1899-08-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042104/1899-08-11/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The news & observer, 1899-08-11.