. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 10 THE CUBA REVI E W Ten or more lives were Storm in lost and property worth more Pinar del T^ $2,000,000 was de- stroyed in the tornado which swept over the Province of Pinar del Rio, September 17. Communication between Havana and the storm area in the western part of the province was cut ofT except at two or three points. More than 2,000 persons were made home- less, several hundred houses, herb and to- bacco barns blown down, and many acres of tobacco seed beds on which the crop de- pends destroyed. Roads in course of con- struction were ruined
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 10 THE CUBA REVI E W Ten or more lives were Storm in lost and property worth more Pinar del T^ $2,000,000 was de- stroyed in the tornado which swept over the Province of Pinar del Rio, September 17. Communication between Havana and the storm area in the western part of the province was cut ofT except at two or three points. More than 2,000 persons were made home- less, several hundred houses, herb and to- bacco barns blown down, and many acres of tobacco seed beds on which the crop de- pends destroyed. Roads in course of con- struction were ruined, bridges swept away and telegraph wires broken. President Gomez called a special session of Congress on September 24 to devise re- lief measures. He himself contributed $500 to a fund for the relief of those made homeless. At the special session of the Relief Cuban Congress, called by the Measures. President, September 24, the Senate passed a bill placing with banks the sum of $700,000 for three years, without interest, to be loaned to far- mers, land owners, tobacco growers, etc., in Pinar del Rio, who may have suffered from the last cyclone, at a rate not higher than three per cent. The Senate also passed an appropriation bill of $100,000 for public works in the desolated towns and $50,000 for tobacco seed to be distributed among the farmers. The House on September 28 amended the Senate bill raising to $1,000,000 the amount appropriated for the benefit of the sufferers by the recent cyclone. The Senate rejected the amendment and the discussion ended on September 30 by Congress appropriating $75,000 on strong intimation that President Gomez would veto any bill appropriating any very large sum. The session lasted a week and adjourned October 1. The dam- age done by the storm has been hugely ex- aggerated. The brig San Antonio, which was beached upon a mud shoal off Punta Castle, Ha- vana Harbor, when she sprang a leak early in September, after striking the rocks of the "D
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