Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-08-13 | Page 1 | Arecibo is Destroyed

ARECD30 IS DESTROYED To Hundred Bodies Arc In the Morue There San Juan de Porto Rico AlI 12Ac cording to an official report received here the port of Areclbo was destroyed during the recent severe storm the place being Inundated by water from the ocean and the river Tw hundred bodies arc in the morgue there and hundreds of persons are missing I A olnfJ mieI miumber of American mie who lived I 011 plantations in the suburbs were I drowned rho commanding officer of I the district has ordered that the boJies of the victims of the disease shall be I burled where they are found San Juan has been appealed to for supplies According to the latest report from Yabucoa eighty bodies were buricd there on Yedcde while the remains of the 200 victims have net been recovered re-covered The church is the only luld log left standing It Is reported that a number of American soldiers were kied at Maya guese