Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — PLANTATIONS UNDER WATER [ARTICLE]

PLANTATIONS UNDER WATER

Vessel Comes Cargoless From Bocae Del Toro Fruit Country. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 12.—Without an ounce of cargo the steamship Belvernun arrived here. Captain Henry Hendricksen brought a story or rain, ruin and devastation to property and fruit plantations of Bocas del Toro and vicinity. Persons were wading around waist deep in the plantations, bridges’ had been washed from their fastenings and communication entirely cut off from the Changuinola district.