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Show DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE IH THE -SOUTH SEA ISLES Lost of Life. Small, So Far as Known, But a Great Amount of Damage Wat Done to Property. Pnpecte, Thltl, via Snn Francisco, Cnl. Tho most destructive cyclone lever experienced -In the Society and iTunmotu lslnnds, occurred' on February Febru-ary 7 nnd 8. The damage In Tahiti Is estlmntcd nt 11,000,000, nnd pre-sumnbly pre-sumnbly a similar amount of property was destroyed on tho Tuamotu islands. isl-ands. Tho city of Papeeto was inundated inun-dated nnd about seventy-live buildings destroyed, including the American consulate and tho French gpvornmeni 'building. Tho shipping In tho harbor of Papeete escaped Injury owing to tho direction of tho wind, but fears 'nro entertained for vessels which wero cruising near the Tuamotu Islands. It Is feared" that thero may havo been heavy loss of life In tho Ingoons bf tho Tuamotu Islands, though the death of the guardian of tho quarantine quaran-tine station In Papeete is tho only fntallty yet reported. Tho schooner Pnpette was submerged sub-merged for an hour near Anaa, Tua-motu. Tua-motu. Her captain, Philip Mlchaolll, estimated thnt the waves wero sixty-five sixty-five feet high. It was Imposslblo to .see twenty feet nway at 3 o'clock In tho dny time; nnd tho sailors had to be lashed to tho vessel. Many nnrrow escapes from drowning drown-ing havo been reported. Irldgcs and ,ronds wero badly damaged on tho lsl-land lsl-land of Tahiti. Dread, fruit, coconnut, banana and plnntnlp trees w;ero blown (down In grcnt numbers, which will re-suit re-suit In hardships to tho natives nnd (materially nffect comncrco during tho inext two or thrco years. Tho vlllnge of Toronn was com-'plotcly com-'plotcly swept nwny. it consisted of tho mission buildings and homes of jnntlve converts of tho reorganized .Latter-day Saints' mission, formerly 'under the direction of Captain Joseph Hurton of California. Tho mission house and n great many houses wcro .carried off a dlstauco ot many hundreds hun-dreds of yards nnd demolished. Of the church cdlflco not a vestige tremalns. A settlement nbout nn eighth of n mile distant, comprised of dwolllngs of Bcveral hundred Cook (Islanders (British subjects) wns nlso completely destroyed. ' |