Show Town Swept by Hurricane Becomes Giant Pyre as Bodies Are Ae Cremated By Bv j. j p. p MCKNIGHT Associated Press Staff Correspondent Cuba Nov 14 14 The The town own of Santa Cruz Del Sur became a gigantic gigantc funeral pyre today on the order of military authorities The destruction of or wind wid and water that hat also took the lives of probably 2500 Cubans lost last week was wa thus thu completed completed com corn for the sake of sanitation This action acton made it i probable that the he exact number of lv lives s taken by bythe bythe the he hurricane of last Wednesday will Wf never never be known Meanwhile President Gerardo Machado Machado Ma- Ma Mi chado to leave was ready the capital to o inspect the hurricane torn tor areas area and governmental agencies sped up the he task of relief and rehabilitation Dr Octavio minister of the interior who estimated the dead at 2500 traversed much of the mile mUe wide path of or the hurricane during durig the night with wih military au au- nu- nu His train carried sacks of rice GOOD pounds of lard and 2000 sacks of beans and other rations for temporary temporary tem tern relief of the thousands o of homeless in province province City where more than 1000 injured refugees are concentrated ed ed mostly from Santa Cruz Crux today effected repairs repair on the aqueduct as assuring assuring as- as a- a suring water supply The military authorities ruled the city and vaccination vaccination nation naton to avert epidemics epidemic was com corn It I was wa learned learne today that Mrs Mrs W. W S. S Rogers of Gloria Glora the principal principal prin prin- cipal American colony in t the e province province ince knee was killed and her husband huband and sister seriously injured Her home in the United States stats was Wa not known At Garden City the homes of several several sev sev- eral cral Americans Aerian were destroyed but there were no casualties The American Amer Asner- ican jean consul at Nuevitas has ha been or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered by the state department to proceed to Santa Cruz Crux on onan an inspection inspection tion trip rIp ton The destruction of Santa Cruz was vas proceeding wih with gasoline furnished through the government government Soldiers Soldier into and grave diggers were pressed s service to reduce the wreckage under under under un un- un- un der ashes which many may bodies still lay to |