People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — LOST IN THE HURRICANE. [ARTICLE]

LOST IN THE HURRICANE.

Four Vessels Wrecked and Eleven Persons Perish Off San Domingo. New York, Oct. 16.—The hurricane that passed over the island of San Domingo on the night of September 21 did considerable damage, especially at the capital. Many houses were unroofed and the streets and cellars were flooded. The poor suffered greatly. The surrounding sugar estates were much injured by th® storm, particularly the plantations La Fe and Francia. The former wis damaged to the amount ol 0;)0. Not a single sugar estate escape !. Several -.mall coasting vessels suffered, four being being lost. Ou one vessel bound from San Domingo to Son Chez eh ven persons lost their lives, including a German family of five, mother and four children.