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Show HURRICANE AGAIN HITS CUN SHORE i LATEST ADVICES FROM ISLAND TELL OF TERRIFIC HAVOC; OVER 6500 HOMELESS j Number of Injured Large; Propcrt Loss Over $100,000,000; Reports I of More Than 650 Persons I Were Killed i Havana Reports of more than C50 persons killed in Wednesday's hurricane, hurri-cane, an unknown umber of injured and 6(300 homeless were mingled with frantic appeals for aid early Thursday morning. Ten or more towns and villages are said to have been completely destroyed. destroy-ed. The damage is expeced to reach nearly f 100, 000.000. . Hanvana Every hour adds to the list of dead,, injured and homeless Wednesday devasated many towns and through the great hurricane which villages throughout the island. The dead by official figures up to this, evening eve-ning number about sixty, but the newspaper news-paper estimates run as high as 200, with 2000 or more injured. Some authorities put the damage at $35,000,000 although there is no way of making a definite estimate of the damage wrought outside of Havana on account, of lack of communications. One hundred ships of various classes were sunk or badly damaged. It is feared that many seamen have been drowned. A check-up revealed that approximately ap-proximately fifty were missing from their rosters. Some of these unquestionably unques-tionably perished. |