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says the cyclone did enormous damage

to the interior of that island, a number

of coffee and cocoa estates being devas

tated. Le Mourle, a suburb, was half

destroyed and there were a number of

fatalities.

St. Jean advices say the cyclone

caused great destruction in Porto Rico,

whence it passed northward to Do

minica and thence to Cape Haytien and

the eastern end of Cuba.

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Aug. 10.—

Twrk's IsiaHk. e,iorts that the .cyclone

passed during the night after doing

trifling damage. The center of the dis

turbance is apparently progressing

northward toward the American coast.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. The

Weather Bureau has issued the follow

ing bulletin:

"Noon —Hurricane central north of

the eastern extremity of Cuba, moving

northwest and probably recurving

northward. South Atlantic and Cuban

shipping advised to remain in port.

"WILLIAMS.

"Acting Chief of the Weather Bureau."

THE HURRICANE IN GUADA

LUPE.

FORT DE FRANCE (Island of

Martinique), Aug. 10— The authorities

in the island of Guadalupe are still

without news from the interior, owing

to the interruption of telegraphic com

munication due to the hurricane. But

other advices which have reached

Pointe-a-Pitre say the coffee crops

have been nearly destroyed. At La

Pointe-a-Pitre seven persons were in

jured and at Moul the damage done

was considerable and several persons

were killed and wounded. At Petit

Canal and Port Louis also several per

sons were killed and a number in

jured. The villages of Grippon and

Lamentin have been entirely destroyed

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The record-union. (1899). Sacramento, Calif., 1899-08-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015104/1899-08-11/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The record-union, 1899-08-11.