We deeply sympathize with the United States in the calamity
from hurricane which has visited the Coasts of Florida. Last Saturday the hurricane burst on Miami and Palm Beach, and the wind is said to have had a speed of more than a hundred miles an hour. Many buildings collapsed and a wall of water came in from the sea and flooded Miami. Even some of the tallest and strongest buildings in Miami were tosl-isted and may have to be demolished and rebuilt. I course, all such things as electric lights and telegraph wires were quickly swept away, and the water-mains burst. It is almost impossible to conceive the effect upon Miami, which within the past few years, as the result of the extraordinary land boom,- -has risen from a village into a large and highly-sophisticated town, the delight of - rich people who go there to enjoy the charming winter climate.
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