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Show FIVE HUNDRED PERISH. Large Nirnber lilt llrttllalo r.n.1 Sltri. log lo Until.. I'onee, Aug II The wort storm eter experienced here struck tbUplsee Tuesdsy morning at oeloek. lasting two hours. It came from the north west. I'onee wa flooded at midnight and at least 300 person t were drnwntil Two hundred bodies tnottly thine ol poor people and Including man) child ran, hate been rccotend Ihe aiddltra and firemen worked all night heroically anting lite. Hte hundred persons toil their lltet during the hurrlcau Ihere It no drinking water, gas. Ice or electric light The eomintury stores at I'laya were destroyed. Ihe city Is short of food and the army ofll ter are tils' ribullng rations Abonlta, Including the barracks hat tieen destroyed but no lite lost there Join Dims list been detaslaled Forty six lite were lost there Arroyo tlu-ayama tlu-ayama Salinas and San Islbel are reported re-ported to hate been totally deinollthid The railroad between Fouce and a cuao has been destroyed, aud the mill tsry road la Itnpssssbte. |