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entirely destroyed by a hurricane on September 10th. The storm

raged through the morning without doing much harm, but a second storm, coming after a half-hour of calm, was so violent that nothing could stand against it. The town was laid in ruins, and a tidal wave, inun- dating the place to a depth of sixteen feet, completed the disaster. The number of persons buried in the ruins or drowned by the flood is estimated at a thousand. British and American warships have been sent with supplies, and aeroplanes with medical stores were des- patched by the United States Government as soon as the news reached Washington. Most of us at home know discreditably little of our fellow subjects there, except that they send us mahogany, but the deepest sympathy will be felt with the sufferings of the colony.