Vol I No. 261
the San Juan Star Te. 30490
San Juan, Puerto Rice, Wednesday, September 7, 1960
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OD DISASTER ISLAND 106
Known
Dead:
Humacao
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Puerto Rico is a stricken land this morning.
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Hit
Floods caught the island with its gua rd down early yesterday, leaving 106 known
dead, more than a thousand injured, and uncounted thousands homeless. The town of Humacao, on the southeast coast, was hardest hit, with 86 dead and
some 200 other persons matssing in that town clone. (See FLOODS, Page 2.)
CENTER OF DISASTER— The hardest hit area in the flood
disaster that struck Puerta Rico yesterday was the densely
populated river's edge of the Humacao river at Humacao on
the southeastern end of the island where surging flood waters devastated a wide swath of houses along the river.with ¢
a loss of more than 86 lives. many
victims
in their homes
The floods, which in the early morning
caught hours,
followed the passing of hurricane Donna which moved north of the island on Monday and was reported last night northeast.of the.Bahamas. (STAR photo by Gunter Hett.),