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Show St. Augustine, Miami, Tampa and Other Cities Have Not Been Heard From in Over 24 HoursOcean Sweeping Inland For Twenty Miles Nearly all of the Florida peninsula Is today Isolated as a result of the i hurricane which for over 21 hours had I been sweeping across the state at fix-! fix-! ty to ninety miles an hoar. The mea gre news from the hurricane terrl tory sas It was one of the worst storms of recent yearn and grave fears are felt for the safety of life and property The lust word from St. Augiiitine left there yesterday aft'-rnoon and did net reach news channels until today. to-day. Then the city was still comparatively com-paratively unharmed, but preparing for a tide expected to overflow uiauy ot its stref is. No lo63 of life is feared from St. Augustine, but apprebentdon exists a to Miami from which nothlug has been heard for two days. Itrunswlck Ga.. was near the center cen-ter of the storm at noon today. The last word from there came last night when the storm tide was creeping over large arras of the adjacent .shore. The tremendous niih of the tide Is indicated by the flooding of suctions nearly twenty miles inland, in the vicinity of Savannah Jacksonville, heard from early this morning, reported tho storm diminishing diminish-ing slightly. Tampa has not been heard from since early vesterday, when the storm was nearlng it3 height and tearing tear-ing off roofs In the city. The storm's course today appears to be np the Atlantic coast wiLh pros pects that It may veor out to sea be- fore reaching the South Carolina ! coast. i Storm at Savannah. Savannah. Ga.. Oct 19. With an abating wind at daylight Savannah appeared ap-peared to have experienced the worst 1 of the tropical hurricane now traveling travel-ing northward up the Atlantic coast. No great damage to shipping is re-I re-I ported All last night tho wind blew ' at an average velocity' of mory than r.o miles an hour. Ship In the Storm. Charleston. Oct. 19 Early this morning the wind reached f.n miles an hour, accompanied b excessive rainfall. It Is eald crops have suffered. suf-fered. The German cruiser Freya, on the way to Havana, Is believed to have encountered the hurricane at l's worst. The captain left here Satur day In spite of storm warnings, saying say-ing the experience would be good for bis crew. Ships Wrecxed. Key West, Fla., Oct 19 (Via Havana) Ha-vana) Further news of the elamage wrought by the tropical storm that swept the southern extremity of Florida Flor-ida was received today. The Norwegian Nor-wegian steamer Fos, from Port Tarn pa. Oct. 12th, for Europe via Norfolk, is ashore off Poca Grande island. Her crew of eighteen has aryved here. The American steamer Herman Frasch from New York, 1 .1th for Sa bine Pas9, Texas. Is disabled off All-muntour All-muntour Kev. San Key lighthouse reports the Pritlsh steamer Inventor, Galveston, Oct. 11th, for Liverpool, rescued sixteen six-teen sailors, ten f,-om the Spanish bark. Hugo, and six from the Ameil-j Ameil-j ran schooner Martha. The Inventf r proceeded. The Hugo was bound from Corunnn. Sept 9th, for Apnlach-icola. Apnlach-icola. The Martha was reported at! Port Arthur. Texas. August ".th The American steamer Neuces has arrived arriv-ed here from Galveston for New York ami reports that eight houses on Rebecca Re-becca shoal. Tortugas Island, and Garden Gar-den Key are dark. Property Loss Enormous. Havana, Oct. 19. IJeiief trains are being sent Into Pinar del Rio, which bore the brunt of the recent heavy rain storms Scattered reports received receiv-ed here show that the property losses throughout that province wcro m urinous. The greater portion of tho province which forms the western extremity of Cuba, was Inundated and nearly all towns suffered. Hardly a house has been left standing stand-ing in the co'untry districts and tobacco to-bacco barns everywhere are destroyed. destroy-ed. The crops are ruined The monetary mone-tary los6 will total millions of dollars. dol-lars. The loss of llfy apparently was much less than at Urst feared, and occurred oc-curred chiefly in the town of Consola-elon. Consola-elon. where twelve persons were ilrowned. It is expected other cases of drowning will lrf discovered when the repef trains penetrate the devastated devas-tated regions. |