CATASTROPHE: $15,000,000 Storm

Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean east of the West Indies fortnight ago a mass of hot air began to rise to cooler levels, made heavy rain clouds. Strong Southwest winds hit them, piled them up into a storm, drove them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous...

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