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The United Fruit Company's Radio Telegraph System
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stumps. After being there for about an hour, there was a lull. The wind subsided and we returned to the station. We found that the Cuban Government barometer (the United States Government barometer was destroyed early in the storm) which has a scale graduated to read from 27.6 to 32.00, was down to the lowest mark; in fact, the indicator was against the pin at 27.6. I do not know how much farther it would have gone if the pin had not been there.
When I found that the barometer was as low as it would go, and the wind again increasing, we decided to go to the lighthouse, three miles away. This is a stone structure and we thought it would stand. In the meantime the wind had gotten stronger than ever. It took us about four hours to reach the lighthouse, which we did at 7:00 P. M., having had to crawl most of the way amidst flying sand, timbers, falling trees, etc. On our arrival at the lighthouse we found that the prisms had been blown in, putting the light out of commission. We found there the wreck of a Honduranian schooner. The captain had come in as close as he could get, but before he could get a boat out, the anchor chain parted and the vessel started out to sea. All hands jumped overboard and somehow got ashore.
The vessel was blown to sea and disappeared in less than 30 minutes.
We spent the night at the lighthouse and returned to the station on the i5th, finding that all provisions, furniture and kitchen utensils had been destroyed or buried under the sand. About io:ooA.M. a native family, carrying five dead bodies, arrived at the station on their way to the lighthouse. This family, named Soto, who had lived in this locality for three generations, lost five of their number during this storm.
We endeavored to clean up a bit and get a place to sleep, but the mosquitoes, gnats and crabs which invaded the house, would not permit.
On the 1 8th I hired a small sailboat and started for Arroyos, 50 miles distant, but a few miles out sighted a Cuban revenue cutter, which took me on board and landed me at La Fe at night, from which place I proceeded to Havana.
Until some ten years ago, the United States Weather Bureau had been without adequate weather reports from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and, during the hurricane season, August i5th to September i5th particularly, the lack of such facilities was a
RADIO OPERATOR S ROOM On the "Great White Fleet" S. S. Toloa
THE s. s. "ULUA"
Of the "Great White Fleet." The radio equipment on this vessel duplicates that on the Toloa