Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — WORK OF THE HURRICANE. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF THE HURRICANE.

Almost 2.000 Persons Killed and 22,000 tendered Homeless. The reports of the Board of Health uj to last Friday give the following statistics of the ruin caused by the Porto Rico hurricane: Killed 1,973 Missing . 1.000 Houses destroyed 6.421 Persons homeless. 22,046 Cities in need of physicians, drugs and hospitals: Caguas. Yabucoa. Maunabo. Utuado. Coamo. Corosal. The Board of Charity at San Juan is sending out supplies by land and water daily, but petitions keep coming in from all over the country demanding food, medicines and money. There are no means of raising funds in the different localities. At Maunabo an effort was made to start a popular subscription, but only ten pesos was contributed. In consequence of the putrefaction of bodies typhus fever has developed at Arroyo. . The captains of coastwise vessels complain that the bad odors at the various ports have caused them more suffering than the hurricane.