Show I TER C HURRiCANE IS SWEEPING OVER CUBA AND COAST Of FLORIDA I I I II City of Denuded of Trees Frees a and d Ie graph Poles Piles and Ships have Dave Been Sunk Sulk in Weather Bureau Warns Florida I Hamna Oct Ocl ItA storm o of laur 1 proportions this elt city I early carly today mid and raged with fury fun for several eoral hours No fatalities have been reported up to this time lime but the property losses from wind and andrain andrain rain probably wIll be enormous Many lighters and oUter other small craft In ht the harbor have hae been sunk or driven ashore All the tho telegraph wires In the tho city are down the electrical power service Renice Is iH crippled anti and scarcely a tree Is left leCt standing In ID Ianna IannaI I Washington Oct de dc of property and loss Of life on the South Atlantic coast and tOn even evenin In the interior according to Professor Willis L Moore iii II certain to result from a great hurricane which hang hn al alread tl read t touched southern Florida a and andIs nil nilI I is making its wa way lip up the tho coast Sluice the reports issued this morning morn mom ing the weather bureau has received additional information that has led Professor ProCessor Moore to take every yer meas tire lire possible to protect the auts of the sea Islands off the Flor FlorIda FlorIda Ida const coast from the approaching storm At noon he be wired Ired the tho signal officer observers at Jupiter inlet Tampa Jacksonville and Thomasville Ga to Incur an any necessary expense IX pense to des warnings to the Islands coast cities and even een the Interior or of orth th the stale Just before noon the barometer at atIe atKey Ie Key West recorded the remarkably low reading o of and already at that point tho rho wind had bad reached hur t force In the opinion Of the forecaster the tho storm the entire Florida peninsula It is due clue in full force to tonight tonight night and the weather bureau appeals to all newspapers and commercial or organizations In the threatened district to spread the news of 0 its ils approach Tw The West lest Indian hurricane is fast approaching Ke Key West rest accord Og to toa toa a dispatch d at noon by the me weather bureau from its ill observer at that point He reported the tho barometer ter eter had further dropped to 2370 and the wind was blowing at the tho rate of GS Cs miles an hour hOUf In order to safe safeguard guard the life or of the weather bureau observer at Sand Key n a small island Igland to the thc southwest of Ke Key West Vest Chief Chier Moore ordered the man to abandon his post The observer has reported to Washington that he has taken reo re fuge in the lighthouse on the tho Island Lollman Lohman of Brooklyn during the tho mid Hud so Fulton celebration Both attended a reception given to the officers of the German warships warship In the tho harbor nn and t there cro tho they Wore Introduced to Second Lieutenant Fritz whom they Immediately recognized as the tho brother Wien Vlen eight yi ars arR old ho was sent to market In Germany and lost his way He was sent to to an institution and from that was graduated Into the nays Ile had not seen his relatives for more than tw twenty years anti and through his sisters learned harned the name llam 1 of hit his home town b |