Evening star
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exchange of gifts, in accordance with
age-old customs. The formal marriage
will be celebrated on September 28.
The prince’s gifts were Wliveyed to
the residence of adopted
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WASHINGTON, I). C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928-SIXTY-TWO PAGES.
Porto Rico Hit,
Blast Sweeps
On to Haiti.
SHIPPING LOSSES
BELIEVED HEAVY
Toll of Life iu West
Indies Unknown.
San Juan Dark.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 14.
The tropical islands of the West
Indies were raked today by a dev
astating hurricane that caused
steadily increasing destruction to
property ashore, damage to ships
at sea and death of an unde- I
termined number of people.
Reports from the zone of de
struction were incomplete, but
they were enough to show that
the storm was of unusual fury, a
whirling blast that would leave a
wide wake of desolation.
Porto Rico, largest of the bodiej
j of land in the storm’s path, was j
apparently the victim of the full j
fury of the tempest. The winds,]
veering madly in the usual style
of these storms as the air currents
rush toward the moving vortex,
reached 134 miles an hour. Then
the wind gauge at San Juan broke,
but the wind increased and some
estimates placed its greatest rate
as around 159 miles an hour.
Few Withstand Blast.
Few structures can withstand pres
sure of that degree and 80 per cent j
of the houses around San Juan gave
way. Hospitals and other substantial j
buildings were unroofed, trees were up-
rooted and coffee, banana and coconut i
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Evening star. (1928). Washington, D.C., 1928-09-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1928-09-14/ed-1/?sp=1
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1928-09-14.
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