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Show STRUCK BV CYCLONE. Coit of Florid Swept by a Terrific Tornado. Beginning Friday morning on the natt coast and Saturday on the west, and lasting twenty-four hours, south Florida haa been swept by the strong est hurricane ever known in that part of tho stato. The wire went down at tho beginning and railroad service waa delayed. On account of thnt few details have been rwelvwl. At Mia ml the wind attained a velocity of Ixty mile an hour. The car slnl nf tha East Coast railway was lifted clear from Ita foundations. Several mall bot wnro nnk In tho bay. Pasienger on the East Coast train ay that they it many wreck along the shore from Miami to llob.-s ound. A Stsndard Oil company tnsmer with two barge I on tho Leach near Iloynton. Thn crew of fifteen fif-teen men wa saved. The bodice of two unknown whlto men drifted on the beach near Iloynton. At Strake many acre of pineapple bead were blown down. I At Jupiter the wind blow seventy-fly seventy-fly mile an hour with the rain falling fall-ing In torrent. Uthor place en the west coast and In the Interior havo not been heard from, and It I feared that when re-porta re-porta coma In the damage will be great Orange and grape fruit crops bav boon greatly damaged. |