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Show I FIVE HUNDRED PERISH. I Largo Number Made Destitute ajjd Starr ! In to Death. Ponce, Aug. 13. The worst storm ever experienced here struck thispiace Tuesday morning-at 9 o'clock, lasting two hours. It came from the northwest. north-west. Ponce was flooded at midnight, and at least 300 persons were drowned. Two hundred bodies, mostly those of poor people and including many children, child-ren, have been recovered. The soldiers ! and firemen worked all night heroically I saving lives. Five hundred persons lost their lives during the hurricane. There is no drinking water, gas, ice or electric light. The commissary stores at Playa were destroyed, th city is short of food, and the army officers offi-cers are dis'ributing rations. Abonita, including the barracks, have been destroyed, but no lives lost there. Ju an Dimz has been devastated. Forty-six Forty-six lives were lost there. Arroyo, Gu i ayama Salinas and San Isibel are re ported to have been totally demolished The railroad between Ponce and Ya-k Ya-k cuao has been destroyed, and the military mili-tary road is impassable. |