Show ISLANDS BUMS WIPED OUT Of EXISTENCE Early Reports of Devastation Central American Coast Confirmed HEAVY LOSSES OF FRUITS f St Storm rJ s In Prom From Coa Coast t Le Lc Cl r I Path Thirty Miles In h. Extent k I New cw Orleans Oct 15 15 Advices re reI received re- re I late tonight from Central r America by General Manager l Ellis Kills of oC the United Fruit company compall confirm S the earlier reports of devastation of banana and rubber properties near the coa coast t and distant some orne thirty miles from l. the nearest sl port by bya a hurricane the dama damage e being esti estimated estimated esti- esti mated at nt nearl nearly a million dollars The holdings of Curka company experienced experienc ed a loss los of oC upwards of oC from the fur fury of oC the storm which sweepIng sweep sweep- ing lug in from the coast traveled with r great velocity elocH a path thirty miles In extent doing great damage to the plantations The Tho hurricane as ns Is the c case ue with many of oC the storms to which the S tropics arc are subject at this season came In from Crom the Fea sea not far from Its tiNt first Cur fury being visited on Ull the Little and amI Greater Greatel islands which lie off oil the Atlantic coa coast t of oC Nicaragua Thc These e Islands according to advices ad were wiped out of exi existS exist exist- tence t- t S ence Some Somo of oC the floating property of oC the Bluefields company compan was dam dam- lam lam- aged and arid the town of Rama about forty olty miles up the coast and toward tho the Interior was visited with heavy lo loss althou although h no loss of or life liCe was reported At the force orce of oC the storm l was vas not perceptible as the harbor Is lan locked land I and md afforded a secure I t ancHorage e for Cor tho the shipping there 5 i I The storm be began an FrIda Friday afternoon i. i S. S and lasted until Sunday The loss at atthe atthe S the Curka plantation Is 15 the most senous seri sen- ous on account of oC the general destruction destruction de de- of the young plants In III other other oth oth- 0 er cr places the loss was largely o of the tho matured plants The rIc storm advices ad were repeated b by wireless telegraphy from roan the BlueS Blue Blue- S holds station o of tho the company to to tho the 4 wireless Irele stations at Rt Port Limon lAmon and lJ to this 1 hv cable it 11 I a j 1 |