Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 5 | Hurricane Kills 10 and Damages Porto Rico Crops

Hurricane Kills Kill 10 an and Damages w wan Porto Rico ico Crops Crop NEW EW YORK TORK Aug 2 A A checkUp checkUp checkup check- check Up on the louses losses inflicted by the hurricane in Porto Rico shows the loss of life will be less lees than at first t feared ared but the dama damage e to pro e fy and crops will run into the millions millions mil mn- lions according to a cable from m Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture f. f ture tur Ba Bagua u at San Juan to the United Press Six men one woman and three e children lost their lives the cable read Coffee Cortee growers growels suffered se severe severe severe se se- vere losses losses estimated estimated from 25 5 to io 50 60 per cent of their crops There was severe ere destruction of food rood products banana plantation rice corn avocados bread fruit anti ana garden vegetables It is 18 as yet et Impossible to et est estE mate the losses of sugar and small fruit producers rs but they will he quite large Many lany tobacco barn were destroyed as well as man many small houses I In In the Intermountain mountain section sections the losses will be even more severe yet jet et estimate the total toul value of the losses but it will run Into millions of at dollars